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Book Cover for: The Middle English Life of Christ: Academic Discourse, Translation, and Vernacular Theology, Ian Johnson

The Middle English Life of Christ: Academic Discourse, Translation, and Vernacular Theology

Ian Johnson

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This book tells how Middle English lives of Christ translated Latin literary theory and texts, challenging the common modern supposition that vernacular texts and vernacular theology were at odds with Latinate clerical culture.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Brepols Publishers
  • Publish Date: Oct 1st, 2013
  • Pages: 203
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 1.65lb
  • EAN: 9782503547480
  • Categories: • Europe - Medieval• Medieval• Christianity - History

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Praise for this book

"...a valuable contribution to the literature on the lithe sophistication of fifteenth-century orthodoxies. It offers...valuable examples of Middle English translation practice at work in a spiritually central body of work." --Cynthia Turner Camp, The Medieval Review