Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century:
Oral Contexts of Writing in Philosophy, Politics, and Poetry
Jesse M. Gellrich

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Vox Literata: On the Uses of Oral and Written Language in the Later Middle Ages	3
Ch. 2	The Voice of the Sign and the Semiology of Dominion in the Work of Ockham	39
Ch. 3	"Real Language" and the Rule of the Book in the Work of Wyclif	79
Ch. 4	Orality and Rhetoric in the Chronicle History of Edward III	123
Ch. 5	The Politics of Literacy in the Reign of Richard II	151
Ch. 6	The Spell of the Ax: Diglossia and History in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	195
Ch. 7	"Withouten Any Repplicacioun": Discourse and Dominion in the Knight's Tale	227
	Bibliography	273
	Index	297

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