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Latin and Vernacular: Studies in Late Medieval Texts and Manuscripts
This collection of new essays, expansions and elaborations of papers read at the 1987 York Manuscripts Conference, focuses on the complex relationship between Latin and vernacular in late medieval texts and manuscripts. It includes examinations of many facets of bilingual literary culture.
163 pages, Hardcover
First published November 2, 1989
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About the author
Alastair J. Minnis
43 books2 followersAlastair J, Minnis, born in 1948, is a Northern Irish literary critic and historian of ideas who has written extensively about medieval literature, and contributed substantially to the study of late-medieval theology and philosophy.
Minnis has held the post of the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English at Yale University since 2008.
"Characteristically, my research methodology brings together reading strategies from literary criticism and the history of ideas, and an interest in medieval philosophy and theology has informed much of my work. My latest monograph is From Eden to Eternity: Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)"
Minnis has held the post of the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English at Yale University since 2008.
"Characteristically, my research methodology brings together reading strategies from literary criticism and the history of ideas, and an interest in medieval philosophy and theology has informed much of my work. My latest monograph is From Eden to Eternity: Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)"
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