Retrospective prophecy and medieval English authorship /
This study argues that prophecy emerged and recurred as an important theme in both medieval authorial self-representation and the subsequent intellectual and critical assessment of medieval authors and their works by others. Because prophecy is always a second hand authority, readers can easily coop...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2022].
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| Summary: | This study argues that prophecy emerged and recurred as an important theme in both medieval authorial self-representation and the subsequent intellectual and critical assessment of medieval authors and their works by others. Because prophecy is always a second hand authority, readers can easily coopt it to support their own political and theological causes. The author examines three English authors whose reputations have been appropriated in a variety of ways due to the prophetic portions of their texts (or texts that have been attributed to them), William Langland, John Gower and Geoffrey Chaucer. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 187 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781487563479 1487563477 |