1st Edition
Polemic Language as Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Discourse
302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
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If terms are associated with particular historical periods, then ’polemic’ is firmly rooted within early modern print culture, the apparently inevitable result of religious controversy and the rise of print media. Taking a broad European approach, this collection brings together specialists on medieval as well as early modern culture in order to challenge stubborn assumptions that medieval culture... Read more
Introduction; I: Textual Strategies; 1: Between Autobiography and Apocalypse; 2: The Ends of Polemic and the Beginning of Lohengrin; 3: Feeling the Polemic of an Early Motet; 4: ‘Why do you concern yourself with these words?' Rhetoric and Polemic in Medieval Castilian Female Saints' Lives; II: Social Practice; 5: Dissing the Teacher; 6: Language of Violence; 7: Psalms as Polemic; 8: Maximos the Greek; III: Historical Narratives; 9: The Polemic of Reform in the Later Medieval English Church; 10: Lamenting the Church? Bishop Andrzej Krzycki and Early Reformation Polemic; 11: The Polemics of Moderation in Late Seventeenth-Century England
Biography
Dr Almut Suerbaum, Fellow and Tutor in German, Somerville College, Oxford, UK Dr Benjamin Thompson, Fellow and Tutor in History, Somerville College, Oxford, UK Dr George Southcombe, Sarah Lawrence College, USA and Director of the Sarah Lawrence Programme at Wadham College, Oxford, UK.
