Truth Is Trickiest: The Exploitation of Proverbial Authority in Medieval English Literature
These texts reflect the paradox of proverbial authority in the Middle Ages; it is by turns esteemed and questioned, validated and dismissed. Such a paradox undermines the scholarly assumption that medieval men and women uncritically respected this important form of auctoritas. Despite the veneration of proverbial authority in the Middle Ages, there was considerable room for dissent.
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