RT Book
T1 The language of heresy in Late Medieval English literature
T2 Christianities before modernity
JF Christianities before modernity
A1 Wagner, Erin K.
LA English
PP Berlin Boston
PB De Gruyter
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1892086077
AB Vernacular writers of late medieval England were engaged in global conversations about orthodoxy and heresy. Entering these conversations with a developing vernacular required lexical innovation. The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature examines the way in which these writers complemented seemingly straightforward terms, like heretic, with a range of synonyms that complicated the definitions of both those words and orthodoxy itself. This text proposes four specific terms that become collated with heretic in the parlance of medieval English writers of the 14th and 15th centuries: jangler, Jew, Saracen, and witch. These four labels are especially important insofar as they represent the way in which medieval Christianity appropriated and subverted marginalized or vulnerable identities to promote a false image of unassailable authority
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 239-269
CN 820.938273
SN 978-1-5015-1923-9
K1 Heresy in literature
K1 Literature, Medieval
K1 Religion / Christianity / History
K1 Heresy
K1 Middle English
K1 Orthodoxy
K1 Religion
K1 Vernacular
K1 Hochschulschrift