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...
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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. This book studies medieval attitudes towards the ventriloquism of God's voice and Christ's voice through human media. Taken together, these chapters tell a story, one of 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.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Listen Up!; Part I Powerful Fantasies of Christ's Voice; 1 The Talking Dead; 2 Christ's Lips Move; Part II Anxiety and the Clerical Voice; 3 The Master's Voice; 4 Cursed Speakers; Part III Lay Subversion in the Eucharistic Canon; 5 Belly Speech; 6 Playing the Prophet; Conclusion: Resounding Voices; Notes; Bibliography; Index