Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: "That whel wol cause another whel"
  • Nominalism, speech, and power in "The manciple's tale"
  • Saint Erkenwald: the sacrament of the altar and the persistence of the past
  • Economies of speech and redemption in the works of Thomas Hoccleve
  • Speech, rhetoric, and politics in Gower's Confessio Amantis
  • Conclusion : the plowman's two voices.