Medieval Nonsense : : Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England / / Jordan Kirk.
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 sound....
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- The Wind in the Shell: Prolegomena to the Study of Medieval Nonsignification
- 1 Priscian, Boethius, and Augustine on Vox Sola
- 2 Walter Burley on Suppositio Materialis
- 3 The Cloud of Unknowing on the Litil Worde of O Silable
- 4 St. Erkenwald on the Caracter
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index