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Edwin Craun draws on manuscript sources to demonstrate how the medieval clergy developed the authority and persuasive force to attempt to govern the day-to-day speech of Western Christians. He also explores how this stance was challenged by poets such as Chaucer and Gower.Craun, Edwin David is the author of 'Lies, Slander And Obscenity in Medieval English Literature Pastoral Rhetoric And the Deviant Speaker', published 0016 under ISBN 9780521022019 and ISBN 0521022010.
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