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Add to list Added to list Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker
Edwin David Craun (Henry S. Fox, Jr., Professor of English, Washington and Lee University, Virginia)
This book examines how the medieval clergy tried to govern the day-to-day speech of Western Christians. It explores, for the first time, how Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the ‘Patience’ poet…
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