Prophet margins : the Medieval vatic impulse and social stability

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While poets have traditionally inhabited cultural margins, prophets have brought poetic language to the center of cultural debate, not foretelling the future so much as diagnosing the present. This exciting collection of nine essays examines the range of social and political implications that inflects poetic discourse, from the Old English and Latin texts of the Anglo-Saxon world to the Scotland and England of the Renaissance. Whether saints' lives, Germanic heroic epics, chronicles, or satiric poems, the works discussed in this book retain their verbal power, if not their political influence, into our own time.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 0820471070
• Dimensions: 24 cm
• Extent: VI, 224 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Literaturverz. S. 219 - 224

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Studies in the humanities ; Vol. 67

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft
• Keyword: Geschichte 500-1600 ; Prophetie ; Literatur

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): New York, Washington, DC/Baltimore, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, Oxford
• (who): Lang
• (when): 2004
• Contributor: Risden, Edward L.

Further information

• Table of contents: https://d-nb.info/972642722/04
• Rights: Bei diesem Objekt liegt nur das Inhaltsverzeichnis digital vor. Der Zugriff darauf ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 11.03.2025, 12:03 PM CET