Absent Glosses : A Crisis of Vernacular Hermeneutics in Late-Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Minnis, A. J.
Absent Glosses : A Crisis of Vernacular Hermeneutics in Late-Medieval England
- Published
- Marianne Børch, ed. Text and Voice: The Rhetoric of Authority in the Middle Ages (Odense : University Press of Southern Denmark, 2004), pp. 138-67.
- Description
- Considers the lack of extensive glosses and commentaries on late Middle English literature, including Chaucer, arguing that in England, unlike on the Continent, the concern with "translatio studii" (transferring the authority of the ancients to the present) was "tainted by the Lollards" and their promotion of the vernacular.
- Alternative Title
- Text and Voice: The Rhetoric of Authority in the Middle Ages
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.