Polemic: Language as Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Discourse

Acknowledgements vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction / George Southcombe, Almut Suerbaum and Benjamin Thompson 1
Part I: Textual Strategies: Rhetoric between Invective and Lament
1. Between Autobiography and Apocalypse: The Double Subject of Polemic in Petrarch’s \"Liber sine nomine\" and \"Rerum vulgarium fragmenta\" / Francesca Southerden 17
2. The Ends of Polemic and the Beginning of \"Lohengrin\" / Alastair Matthews 43
3. Feeling the Polemic of an Early Motet / Sean Curran 65
4. \"Why do you concern yourself with these words?\" Rhetoric and Polemic in Medieval Castilian Female Saints’ Lives / Emma Gatland 95
Part II: Social Practice: Articulation of Dissent and Normative Practice
5. Dissing the Teacher: Classroom Polemics in the Early and High Middle Ages / Monika Otter 107
6. Language of Violence: Language as Violence in Vernacular Sermons / Almut Suerbaum 125
7. Psalms as Polemic: The English Bible Debate / Annie Sutherland 149
8. Maximos the Greek: Imprisoned in Polemic / C. M. MacRobert 165
Part III: Historical Narratives: Reformation, Renovation, Restoration
9. The Polemic of Reform in the Later Medieval English Church / Benjamin Thompson 183
10. Lamenting the Church? Bishop Andrzej Krzycki and Early Reformation Polemic / Natalia Nowakowska 223
11. The Polemics of Moderation in Late Seventeenth-Century England / George Southcombe 237
Bibliography 253
Index 287