Metaphors of Textual Materiality in Late Medieval Middle English Sermons.
This article explores the use of book metaphors in a selection of late medieval Middle English sermons, both orthodox and Wycliffite. These book metaphors engage with the materiality of the codex in a variety of ways, drawing on understandings of scribal practice, the dyptical structure of the physi...
| Publicado en: | Studies in Philology Vol. 118; no. 4; pp. 1 - 37 |
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University of North Carolina Press
Fall2021
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