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03559aam a22004218i 4500 001 D4D304989A4E11EE9D2109AF26ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231214010155 008 220304s2022 paua 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0812253728 020 $a 9780812253726 035 $a (OCoLC)1308484303 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d SILO 082 04 $a 820.93820902 $2 23 100 1 $a Watson, Nicholas, $e author. $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000114693301. 245 10 $a Balaam's ass : $b vernacular theology before the English Reformation. $n Volume 1, $p Frameworks, arguments, English to 1250 / $c Nicholas Watson. 246 30 $a Frameworks, arguments, English to 1250 264 1 $a Philadelphia : $b University of Pennsylvania Press, $c 2022. 300 $a xxiv, 588 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a The Middle Ages series 520 8 $a For over seven hundred years, bodies of writing in vernacular languages served an indispensable role in the religious and intellectual culture of medieval Christian England, yet the character and extent of their importance have been insufficiently recognized. A longstanding identification of medieval western European Christianity with the Latin language and a lack of awareness about the sheer variety and quantity of vernacular religious writing from the English Middle Ages have hampered our understanding of the period, exercising a tenacious hold on much scholarship.0Bringing together work across a range of disciplines, including literary study, Christian theology, social history, and the history of institutions, Balaam's Ass attempts the first comprehensive overview of religious writing in early England's three most important vernacular languages, Old English, Insular French, and Middle English, between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. Nicholas Watson argues not only that these texts comprise the oldest continuous tradition of European vernacular writing, but that they are essential to our understanding of how Christianity shaped and informed the lives of individuals, communities, and polities in the Middle Ages.0This first of three volumes lays out the long post-Reformation history of the false claim that the medieval Catholic Church was hostile to the vernacular. It analyzes the complicated idea of the vernacular, a medieval innovation instantiated in a huge body of surviving vernacular religious texts. Finally, it focuses on the first, long generation of these writings, in Old English and early Middle English. 650 0 $a Christian literature, English (Old) $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Christian literature, English (Middle) $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Christianity and literature $z England $x History $y To 1500. 650 6 $a LitteÌrature chreÌtienne anglaise (vieil anglais) $x Histoire et critique. 650 6 $a LitteÌrature chreÌtienne anglaise (moyen anglais) $x Histoire et critique. 650 7 $a Christian literature, English (Middle) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00859281 650 7 $a Christian literature, English (Old) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00859285 650 7 $a Christianity and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00859681 651 7 $a England. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01219920 648 7 $a To 1500 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Middle Ages series 941 $a 1 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214014742.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D4D304989A4E11EE9D2109AF26ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b IOWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search