Encouraging Lay People to Read the Bible in the French Vernaculars: New Groups of Readers and Textual Communities

Modern research has shown that the vernacular Bible in medieval France was closely related to the linguistic politics of the French Kings and to projects of royal self-fashioning. This has also become a generally accepted explanation for the unproblematic presence of Bibles translated into French: t...

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Main Author: Hoogvliet, Margriet (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2013
In: Church history and religious culture
Year: 2013, Volume: 93, Issue: 2, Pages: 239-274
Further subjects:B Bible translations medieval France history of reading cultural history social history
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)