Ed Edwin D Craun (1 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. In three parts - Sins of the Tongue, Punishing Deviant Speech, and Deviant Speech and Gender - this collection of eight essays poses the question: What destructive powers did the tongue and its speech have for medievals? Among the topics discussed are damning through blasphemy, excuses for sin, Lancelot as casuist, and gendered speech.…