Desiring Truth: The Process of Judgment in Fourteenth-Century Art and Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415972406 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 270 str.

Jeremy Lowe

Opis

Presenting an eclectic account and drawing upon a variety of sources, this book situates 14th-century literature within the visual culture of the later Middle Ages to re-invigorate our critical approach to art and literature of this period.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter One Sympathetic Part icipation and the Via Positiva; Chapter Two Visual Fascination and Two Illustrated Prayer Books; Chapter Three The Multiple Modes of The Parlement of the Thre Ages and Piers Plowman; Chapter Four The Cinematic Consciousness of the Pearl-Poet; Conclusion;

O autorze

Jeremy Lowe