In Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature,
leading critic Alastair Minnis presents the fruits of a long-term
engagement with the ways in which crucial ideological issues were
deployed in vernacular texts. The concept of the vernacular is seen
as possessing a value far beyond the category of language - as
encompassing popular beliefs and practices which could either
confirm or contest those authorized by church and state
institutions. Minnis addresses the crisis for vernacular
translation precipitated by the Lollard heresy; the minimal
engagement with Nominalism in late fourteenth-century poetry;
Langland's views on indulgences; the heretical theology of Walter
Brut; Margery Kempe's self-promoting biblical exegesis; and
Chaucer's tales of suspicious saints and risible relics. These
discussions disclose different aspects of 'vernacularity', enabling
a fuller understanding of its complexity and potency.
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