Strategies of the Silent in Medieval English Literature.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craun, Edwin D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silence in literature.

Politics and literature.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English literature.

Genre:

Critiques litteraires.

Literary criticism.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Explores how key figures in major Middle English texts use silence strategically in public life. Drawing on Latin traditions, it examines how rulers, advisors, dissidents, outcasts, and seekers employ silence to govern, maintain power, resist oppression, protect themselves, or learn, highlighting its complex social and political functions"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

COVER Front

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Notes to Introduction

Chapter 1: Why Public Silences Matter Albertano da Brescia and Clerical Texts

Notes to Chapter 1

Chapter 2: The Art of Political Silence The Prudent King of Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes

Notes to Chapter 2

Chapter 3: Corrupt Political Silences Mum and the Sothsegger

Notes to Chapter 3

Chapter 4: Patient Silences Under Interrogation Jesus in the York Cycle and William Thorpe

Notes to Chapter 4

Chapter 5:The Limitations of Silence in Social Life Thomas Hoccleve's "My Complaint" and "Dialogue

Notes to Chapter 5

Chapter 6: Wise Silences in the Life of Learning Will and the Philosophers in Piers Plowman

Notes to Chapter 6

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-271-10060-5

0-271-10059-1

OCLC:

1530374215