Books under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England

by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton

Book Overview

Books under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England examines the censorship issues that propelled the major writers of the period toward their massive use of visionary genres. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton suggests that writers and translators as different as Chaucer, Langland, Julian of Norwich, "M.N.," and Margery Kempe positioned their work to take advantage of the tacit toleration that both religious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268033234
• ISBN13: 9780268033231
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"