The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature - (Christianities Before Modernity) by Erin K Wagner (Hardcover)

About the Book The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature examines the superfluity of synonyms for heretic which complicate standard definitions of Christian orthodoxy in vernacular English literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Book Synopsis Vernacular writers of late medieval England were engaged in global conversations about orthodoxy and heresy. Entering these conversations with a developing vernacular required lexical innovation. The Language of Heresy in Late