«Space to Speke»: The Confessional Subject in Medieval Literature

by Jerry Root

The confessional practice that develops after the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 makes possible a new cultural and literary discourse of the self. This book explores the impact of confessional discourse on fourteenth-century European literature. The approach is interdisciplinary. The author studies examples of the confessional texts of Augustine and Abelard as well as the vernacular didactic literature on confession after 1215. This literature creates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820437115
• ISBN13: 9780820437118
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"