Clerical Discourse and Lay Audience in Late Medieval England

by Fiona Somerset Fry and Fiona Somerset

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521023270
• ISBN13: 9780521023276
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"