{"product_id":"lies-slander-and-obscenity-in-medieval-english-literature-pastoral-rhetoric-and-the-deviant-speaker-cambridge-studies-in-medieval-literature-series-number-31-0521022010","title":"Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 31)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0521022010\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Craun, Edwin David\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on manuscript sources, this book examines how the medieval clergy developed the authority and persuasive force to attempt to govern the day-to-day speech of Western Christians. It explores, for the first time, how Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the \"Patience\" poet presented and judged these attempts to label some political, social and private speech as deviant and destructive--as lying, slander, blasphemy and other Sins of the Tongue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51939579560224,"sku":"NEW0521022010","price":63.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/lies-slander-and-obscenity-in-medieval-english-literature-pastoral-rhetoric-and-the-deviant-speaker-cambridge-studies-in-medieval-literature-series-number-31-0521022010","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}