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The Middle English Life of Christ - Academic Discourse, Translation, and Vernacular Theology (Hardcover)
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The Middle English Life of Christ - Academic Discourse, Translation, and Vernacular Theology (Hardcover)
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How much did Latin academic theoretical discourse inform mainstream
late medieval English literature? Rather than asking this question
of secular poetic fiction (Chaucer, Gower), this book investigates
a more central genre, lives of Christ. Any adequate understanding
of vernacular textuality, in an age when most literature was
translation of some sort, cannot escape the question of the
influence of theory on transactions and ideology of mainstream
literary culture in negotiating authority. Where better to test
this than the life of Christ? Derived from the Gospels, this genre
provided the set text for human existence. Too often, however, it
has been regarded by modern scholarship as an infantilizing
clerical sop to a laity deprived of Scripture and intellectual or
contemplative ambition. Inquiry into the translating and the
spirituality of Middle English lives of Christ yields, however,
eloquent examples not of antagonism and rupture between Latin and
vernacular but of of productive compatibility. This challenges the
common modern supposition that vernacular texts and vernacular
theology are at odds with Latinate clerical culture, and restores
the genre's historic value. Like their dissenting counterparts,
lives of Christ, as well as being of interest in their own right,
invested in learned literary and theological norms in their textual
transactions. Such reliance demands modern (re)consideration.
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