NDLI: Authority and Discourse in the Liber Monstrorum

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Author	McFadden, Brian
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	The Liber monstrorum, a late seventh-or early eighth-century Anglo-Latin catalog of marvelous creatures, uses an ostensible discourse from an author to his superior about the believability of monsters in order to contain anxiety about England’s contemporary social and ecclesiastical situation. The author generally discounts the work of pagan poets or philosophers unless confirmed by Christian sources. Since the LM author cannot always verify the status of the monsters depicted, he leaves the decision about their existence to the reader. The possibility of disagreement among readers problematizes the perception of a broad, dismissive ecclesiastical view of marvels. However, that the LM permits individual opinions on the subject of monsters does not imply an assertion of freedom from authority, but rather that the author allows freedom within an authoritatively-defined discourse. The narrator’s discourse with a presumable social superior subtly suggests that if the marvelous narrative from which the description of the monster is derived is not a miraculous sign from an infallible God, it must be seen as part of a fallible dialogue between humans, and any possible error must be contained by an appropriate interpretative authority.
Starting Page	473
Ending Page	493
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00282677
Journal	Neophilologus
Volume Number	89
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15728668
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2005-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Comparative Linguistics Comparative Literature Historical Linguistics Philology Syntax
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory

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