Truth Is Trickiest: The Exploitation of Proverbial Authority in Medieval English Literature
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description: 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.
abstract: 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.
author: Richardson, Gavin T.
language: eng
keywords: Literature, English
date published: 2015-09-25T20:15:43Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:26:16Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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value: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/81495