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Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature

Power, Anxiety, Subversion
By:M. Hayes
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230108998
eText ISBN:9780230118737
Edition:0
Copyright:2011
Format:Page Fidelity

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A study of medieval attitudes towards the ventriloquism of God's and Christ's voices through human media, which reveals a  progression from an orthodox view of divine vocal power to an anxiety over the authority of the priest's voice to a subversive take on the divine voice that foreshadows Protestant devotion.