Medieval Nonsense Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England /

"In a series of close and unorthodox readings of works by Priscian, Boethius, Augustine, Walter Burley, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the anonymous authors of the Cloud of Unknowing and St. Erkenwald, Jordan Kirk reveals the way that writers across the fourteenth century reckoned with the word as mere...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Kirk, Jordan (Auteur)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.
Collection:Fordham series in medieval studies.
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Accès en ligne:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2528366
Table des matières:
  • The Wind in the Shell: Prolegomena to the Study of Medieval Nonsignification
  • Priscian, Boethius, and Augustine on Vox Sola
  • Walter Burley on Suppositio Materialis
  • The Cloud of Unknowing on the Litil Worde of O Silabe
  • St. Erkenwald on the Caracter.