Polemic - 9781472425065

Taylor & Francis

Taking a broad European approach, this collection brings together specialists on medieval and early modern culture in order to challenge assumptions that medieval culture was homogenous and characterized by consensus, and that literary discourse is by nature \u2019eirenic\u2019. The volume more clearly shows continuities and discontinuities and provides a more nuanced view of the meaning, role, and effect of \u2019polemic\u2019 both broadly across time and space, and more narrowly within specific circumstances. > If terms are associated with particular historical periods, then \u2019polemic\u2019 is firmly rooted within early modern print culture, the apparently inevitable result of religious controversy and the rise of print media. Taking a broad European approach, this collection brings together specialists on medieval as well as early modern culture in order to challenge stubborn assumptions that medieval culture was homogenous and characterized by consensus; and that literary .