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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fonzo, Kimberly (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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."--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (200 pages).
ISBN:9781487563486