Strategies of the Silent in Medieval English Literature

"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.

About the author

Edwin D. Craun is Professor Emeritus of English at Washington and Lee University. He is the author of Ethics and Power in Medieval English Reformist Writing and Lies, Slander, and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker and editor of The Hands of the Tongue: Essays on Deviant Speech.

Product details

• Authors: Edwin D. Craun
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 19.08.2025
• EAN: 9780271099941
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09994-1
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 365 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Religion, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Medieval style