Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages [Paperback]

This 1996 collection of essays examines aspects of medieval literary theory in relation to questions of orthodoxy and dissent.What were the boundaries between 'official' and 'subversive', 'orthodox' and 'dissenting' in the literary theory of the Middle Ages? This collection of new essays by major scholars examines medieval critical practices in relation to questions of orthodoxy and dissent within and between Latin and vernacular cultures. Specific topics include medieval teaching, theories of grammar and rhetoric, poetics and interpretation, academic 'sciences', clerical professionalism, literacy, visual images, theology, and heresy.What were the boundaries between 'official' and 'subversive', 'orthodox' and 'dissenting' in the literary theory of the Middle Ages? This collection of new essays by major scholars examines medieval critical practices in relation to questions of orthodoxy and dissent within and between Latin and vernacular cultures. Specific topics include medieval teaching, theories of grammar and rhetoric, poetics and interpretation, academic 'sciences', clerical professionalism, literacy, visual images, theology, and heresy.What were the boundaries between official and subversive , orthodox and dissenting in the literary theory of the Middle Ages? This collection of new essays by major scholars examines medieval critical practices in relation to questions of orthodoxy and dissent within and between Latin and vernacular cultures. Specific topics include medieval teaching, theories of grammar and rhetoric, poetics and interpretation, academic sciences , clerical professionalism, literacy, visual images, theology, and heresy.Acknowledgments; Introduction: dissenting critical practices Rita Copeland; 1. Rhetoric, coercion, and the memory of violence Jody Enders; 2. Rape and the pedagogical rhetoric of sexual violence Marjorie Curry Woods; 3. Heloise and the gendering of the literate subject Martin Irvine; 4. The dissenting image: a postcard from lÓÕ