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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 December 2009
      05 November 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511583070
      9780521621540
      9780521023276
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511583070
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.485kg, 256 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.383kg, 256 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, Religion, Religion: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (37)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, Religion, Religion: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (37)
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    The translation of learned Latin materials into English between around 1370 and 1410 was a highly controversial activity. It was thought likely to make available to lay audiences the authoritative and intellectual information and methods of argument previously only accessible to an educated elite - and with that knowledge the power of information. Fiona Somerset's 1998 study examines what kinds of academic material were imported into English, what sorts of audience were projected for this kind of clerical discourse and how writers positioned themselves with respect to potential audience and opponents. The well-known concerns with clerical corruption and lay education of authors such as Langland, Trevisa, and Wyclif are linked to those of more obscure writers in both Latin and English, some only recently edited, or only extant in manuscript.

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    "Somerset's book provides the tools to push vernacularity studies...to a higher level, to the kind of serious scholarship the topic still needs." Speculum

    "Somerset's conclusion [comes] after thoroughly sifting [many] documents" Lawrence V Ryan, Albion

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