Ebook: Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature: Power, Anxiety, Subversion
Author: Mary Hayes (auth.)
- Tags: Medieval Literature, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Medieval Europe, British and Irish Literature, Classical and Antique Literature
- Series: The New Middle Ages
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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A study of medieval attitudes towards the ventriloquism of God's and Christ's voices through human media, which reveals a progression from an orthodox view of divine vocal power to an anxiety over the authority of the priest's voice to a subversive take on the divine voice that foreshadows Protestant devotion.
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