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Author:   Almut Suerbaum ,  George Southcombe ,  Benjamin Thompson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9781472425065

ISBN 10:   1472425065
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   28 March 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents: Introduction, George Southcombe, Almut Suerbaum and Benjamin Thompson. Part I Textual Strategies: Rhetoric Between Invective and Lament: Between autobiography and apocalypse: the double subject of polemic in Petrarch's Liber sine nomine and Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, Francesca Southerden; The ends of polemic and the beginning of Lohengrin, Alastair Matthews; Feeling the polemic of an early motet, Sean Curran; 'Why do you concern yourself with these words?' Rhetoric and polemic in medieval Castilian female saints' lives, Emma Gatland. Part II Social Practice: Articulation of Dissent and Normative Practice: Dissing the teacher: classroom polemics in the early and high Middle Ages, Monika Otter; Language of violence: language as violence in vernacular sermons, Almut Suerbaum; Psalms as polemic: the English bible debate, Annie Sutherland; Maximos the Greek: imprisoned in polemic, C.M. MacRobert. Part III Historical Narratives: Reformation, Renovation, Restoration: The polemic of reform in the later medieval English Church, Benjamin Thompson; Lamenting the Church? Bishop Andrzej Krzycki and early Reformation polemic, Natalia Nowakowska; The polemics of moderation in late 17th-century England, George Southcombe. Bibliography; Index.

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Dr Almut Suerbaum, Fellow and Tutor in German, Somerville College, Oxford, UK Dr Benjamin Thompson, Fellow and Tutor in History, Somerville College, Oxford, UK Dr George Southcombe, Sarah Lawrence College, USA and Director of the Sarah Lawrence Programme at Wadham College, Oxford, UK.

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