Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature: Power, Anxiety, Subversion

Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature: Power, Anxiety, Subversion

Author
Mary Hayes (auth.)
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Language
English
Edition
1
Year
2011
Page
XIV, 246
ISBN
978-1-349-29190-8, 978-0-230-11873-7
File Type
pdf
File Size
3.3 MiB

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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