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Book SynopsisWhat were the boundaries between 'official' and 'subversive', 'orthodox' and 'dissenting' practices in medieval literary theory? This 1996 collection of essays by major scholars examines critical practices of the Middle Ages in relation to questions of orthodoxy and dissent within and between Latin and vernacular cultures.
Trade Review'Copeland is to be congratulated for having gathered an edition that manages to be both intelligent and thought-provoking.' Peritia
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction: dissenting critical practices Rita Copeland; 1. Rhetoric, coercion, and the memory of violence Jody Enders; 2. Rape and the pedagogical rhetoric of sexual violence Marjorie Curry Woods; 3. Heloise and the gendering of the literate subject Martin Irvine; 4. The dissenting image: a postcard from Matthew Paris Michael Camille; 5. The schools give a license to poets Nicolette Zeeman; 6. The science of politics and late medieval academic debate Janet Coleman; 7. Desire and the scriptural text: Will as reader in 'Piers Plowman' James Simpson; 8. 'Vae octuplex', Lollard socio-textual ideology, and Ricardian-Lancastrian prose translation Ralph Hanna III; 9. Sacrum Signum: sacramentality and dissent in York's theatre of Corpus Christi Sarah Beckwith; 10. Inquisition, speech, and writing: a case from late medieval Norwich Steven Justice; Index.
