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Almut Suerbaum
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Concilia Magnae Britanniae
discourse analysis history
ecclesiastical debate
Ecclesiastical Polemic
Epistolae Familiares
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Gold Cup
Ignorantia Sacerdotum
Invective Contra Medicum
Jagiellonian Poland
King Zygmunt
language
Late Seventeenth Century England
Lateran IV
Liber Sine Nomine
Luther's Earliest Opponents
Luther’s Earliest Opponents
medieval and early modern polemics scholarship
Medieval Polemic
medieval rhetoric
Monika Otter
National Biography
National Library
nomine
Ny Esi
Past Tenses
polemical
Polemical Speech
religious controversy studies
Russian Church Slavonic
Russian National Library
sermon literature research
sine
Sine Nomine
sins of the tongue
speech
suerbaum
Swan Knight
verlag
violence
Wycliffite Bible
Product details
- ISBN 9781472425065
- Weight: 920g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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If terms are associated with particular historical periods, then ’polemic’ is firmly rooted within early modern print culture, the apparently inevitable result of religious controversy and the rise of print media. Taking a broad European approach, this collection brings together specialists on medieval as well as early modern culture in order to challenge stubborn assumptions that medieval culture was homogenous and characterized by consensus; and that literary discourse is by nature ’eirenic’. Instead, the volume shows more clearly the continuities and discontinuities, especially how medieval discourse on the sins of the tongue continued into early modern discussion; how popular and influential medieval genres such as sermons and hagiography dealt with potentially heterodox positions; and the role of literary, especially fictional, debate in developing modes of articulating discord, as well as demonstrating polemic in action in political and ecclesiastical debate. Within this historical context, the position of early modern debates as part of a more general culture of articulating discord becomes more clearly visible. The structure of the volume moves from an internal textual focus, where the nature of polemic can be debated, through a middle section where these concerns are also played out in social practice, to a more historical group investigating applied polemic. In this way a more nuanced view is provided of the meaning, role, and effect of ’polemic’ both broadly across time and space, and more narrowly within specific circumstances.
Dr Almut Suerbaum, Fellow and Tutor in German, Somerville College, Oxford, UK Dr Benjamin Thompson, Fellow and Tutor in History, Somerville College, Oxford, UK Dr George Southcombe, Sarah Lawrence College, USA and Director of the Sarah Lawrence Programme at Wadham College, Oxford, UK.
