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Books under Suspicion - Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England (Paperback)
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Books under Suspicion - Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England (Paperback)
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Books under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory
Writing in Late Medieval England examines the censorship issues
that propelled the major writers of the period toward their massive
use of visionary genres. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton suggests that writers
and translators as different as Chaucer, Langland, Julian of
Norwich, "M.N.," and Margery Kempe positioned their work to take
advantage of the tacit toleration that both religious and secular
authorities extended to revelatory theology. The book examines
controversial ideas as diverse as the early experimental humanism
of Chaucer, censured beatific vision theology and the breakdown of
Langland's A Text, the English reception of M.N.'s translation of
Marguerite Porete's condemned book, Julian's authorial suppression
of her gender, and the impact of suspect Continental women's
activism on Kempe. Kerby-Fulton also narrates success stories of
intellectual freedom, tracing evidence of ecclesiastical tolerance
of revelation, the impossibility of official censorship in a
manuscript culture, and the powerful, protected reading circles for
radical apocalypticism and mysticism, such as those of the Austins
and the Carthusians. Until now, Wycliffism has been seen as the
only significant unorthodox or radical body of writings in late
medieval England. Books under Suspicion is the first comprehensive
study of banned non-Wycliffite materials in Insular writing during
the period of the Avignon and Great Schism papacies. This weighty,
complex, and rewarding book makes use of neglected material in
manuscripts and archives to reconstruct new aspects of the history
of religious thought and vernacular writing in Ricardian and early
Lancastrian England. As such it will interest scholars of late
medieval religious history and Middle English literary history.
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