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Viva voce: Voice and Voicelessness among Twelfth-Century Clerics
Bruno Lemeslesubject
Moyen ÂgeHistory[ SHS.HIST ] Humanities and Social Sciences/HistoryStatement (logic)05 social sciences0507 social and economic geography06 humanities and the arts16. Peace & justice050701 cultural studiesLinguisticsfilm.subject060104 historyHistoirefilm[SHS.HIST] Humanities and Social Sciences/HistoryRhetorical questionPastoral careDemonic Possession0601 history and archaeologySuspectSet (psychology)[SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/HistoryWord (computer architecture)VoicelessnessComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUSdescription
Writing in his Summa on Gratian’s Decretum1 toward 1164, canonist Rufinus of Bologna2 evokes criminal prelates, saying, “vocem accusandi, reprehendi, docendi non habent” (they do not have a voice to accuse, punish, teach).3 Should this enumeration be understood as a commonplace statement about three possible functions of the voice, or should we suspect a set of deeper associations? Is Rufinus’s use of the word “voice” simply an alternative to other rhetorical or stylistic possibilities—such as the word “word” in particular—or is it truly a deliberate choice on the part of the canonist?
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2015-01-01 |