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Retrospective prophecy and medieval English authorship /
"This study argues that prophecy emerged and recurred as an important theme in both medieval authorial self-representation and the subsequent intellectual and critical assessment of medieval authors and their works by others. Because prophecy is always a second hand authority, readers can be ea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This study argues that prophecy emerged and recurred as an important theme in both medieval authorial self-representation and the subsequent intellectual and critical assessment of medieval authors and their works by others. Because prophecy is always a second hand authority, readers can be easily coopt it to support their own political and theological causes. The author examines three English authors whose reputations have been appropriated in a variety of ways due to the prophetic portions of their texts (or texts that have been attributed to them)--William Langland, John Gower, and Geoffrey Chaucer."-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 187 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781487563493 1487563493 9781487563486 1487563485 |