Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 17315
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Minnis , Alastair J.
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  • Title: Authors in Love: The Exegesis of Late-Medieval Love-Poets [Vernacular poets who wrote about secular love sometimes appropriated techniques of literary criticism from a long scholastic tradition, which involved the interpretation of the Bible or Latin authors like Ovid. By appropriating exegetical (interpretive) practices like learned prologues and glosses within their own manuscripts, vernacular authors gained an authority that was previously reserved only for Latin writers. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: The Uses of manuscripts in literary studies: essays in memory of Judson Boyce Allen.  Edited by Charlotte Cook Morse, Penelope Reed Doob, and Marjorie Curry WoodsStudies in medieval culture.  Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1992.  Pages 161 - 189.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Authority in Literature Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author Commentary, Literary Genre Dante Alighieri, Poet- Convivio Exegesis Glosses in Literature Gower, John, Poet- Confessio Amantis Literature- History and Criticism (Medieval Era) Literature- Verse Love Male
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  • Geographic Area: General
  • Century: 12, 13, 14
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  • Year of Publication: 1992.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 1879288133