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Article: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Books under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerante of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- September 22, 2008
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Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Books under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerante of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), Iii + 562 pp. ISBN 978-0-268-03312-5. $50.00. In this enormous tome, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton re-engages with a continuous motif of her work, intellectual freedom. Just as in her past assays in this area, much of the argument concerns itself with manuscript transmission--here, quite interestingly poised against the general tendency to see English culture as independently 'insular'--and 'reading communities'. The argument rambles through a wide range of diverse, and not entirely coherent, materials; ...