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Clerical Discourse and Lay Audience in Late Medieval England

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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 sorts of audience were projected for this kind of clerical discourse and how ...

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Clerical Discourse and Lay Audience in Late Medieval England 2005, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521023276

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Clerical Discourse and Lay Audience in Late Medieval England 1998, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521621540

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