Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- The verbal sin as a cultural construct -- From Jean de Meun's multidiscursive dispersal to Dante's system of sins -- Lingua dolosa, "the guileful tongue": speaking under the sign of fraud -- Blasphemy and the poetics of violence -- Conclusion.
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