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Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature - Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker (Paperback, Revised)
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Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature - Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
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Drawing on manuscript sources, this book examines how the medieval
clergy developed the authority and persuasive force to attempt to
govern the day-to-day speech of Western Christians. It shows how
attempts were made to portray some political, social and private
speech as deviant and destructive, labelling it lying, slander,
blasphemy and other Sins of the Tongue. It explores, for the first
time, how Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the 'Patience' poet use the
different strains of this pastoral discourse not only to expose the
destructive power of speech in political and social life but also
to judge clerical claims to authority and efficacy in formulating
and applying codes of speech.
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