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Author Somerset, Fiona.

Title Clerical discourse and lay audience in late medieval England / Fiona Somerset
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 241 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 37
Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 37.
Contents pt. I. The Vernacular Oeuvre. 1. Introduction. 2. 'Lewed clergie': vernacular authorization in Piers Plowman. 3. The 'publyschyng' of 'informacion': John Trevisa, Sir Thomas Berkeley, and their project of 'Englysch translacion' -- pt. II. Contesting Vernacular Publication. 4. Answering the Twelve Conclusions: Dymmok's halfhearted gestures toward publication. 5. The Upland Series and the invention of invective, 1350-1410. 6. Vernacular argumentation in The Testimony of William Thorpe
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index
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Subject Catholic Church -- England -- Clergy -- Intellectual life
Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Intellectual life
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Translations into English -- History and criticism
Latin language, Medieval and modern -- Translating into English.
Christian literature, English (Middle) -- History and criticism
Learning and scholarship -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.
Laity -- Catholic Church -- Books and reading -- History
Laity -- England -- Books and reading -- History
Religious thought -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Authors and readers -- England -- History
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
Authors and readers
Christian literature, English (Middle)
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Clergy -- Intellectual life
Intellectual life
Laity
Latin language, Medieval and modern -- Translating into English
Learning and scholarship -- Medieval
Religious thought -- Middle Ages
SUBJECT England -- Intellectual life -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043300
Subject England
Genre/Form Translations
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 97032294
ISBN 9780511583070
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