The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages : Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction / Jesse M. Gellrich.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1985Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©1985Description: 1 online resource (294 pages): illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501740725
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Contents:
The argument of the book: medieval writing and modern theory -- The semiology of space in the Middle Ages: on manuscript painting, sacred architecture, scholasticism, and music -- The language of mythology: on medieval grammar and hermeneutics -- Dante's Liber occultorum and the structure of allegory in the Commedia -- The origin of language reconsidered: Chaucer's House of fame -- Problems of misreading: the "prologue" to The legend of good women -- Interpreting the "naked text" in the "general prologue" to The Canterbury tales -- Retrospect: on historical change.
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The argument of the book: medieval writing and modern theory -- The semiology of space in the Middle Ages: on manuscript painting, sacred architecture, scholasticism, and music -- The language of mythology: on medieval grammar and hermeneutics -- Dante's Liber occultorum and the structure of allegory in the Commedia -- The origin of language reconsidered: Chaucer's House of fame -- Problems of misreading: the "prologue" to The legend of good women -- Interpreting the "naked text" in the "general prologue" to The Canterbury tales -- Retrospect: on historical change.

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