The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages

ISBN-13: 9780815332305 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 352 str.

Albrecht Classen

Opis

These essays explore the cultural significance of writing, reading and the book in the Middle Ages, and argues for an understanding of medieval cultures as combinations of oral and literary expressions. Essays explore the representation of books and reading in art, literature and iconography and the philosophical and religious significance of reading and literacy.

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Introduction, Albert Classen * Varying Degrees of Light: Bonaventure and the Medieval Book of Nature, Ashlynn K. Pai ; Reading That Transforms: Virgil's Hero Reborn on Twelfth Century Vernacular Representations, Raymond Cormier * Reading and the Book: Frame and Story in the Old French Dolopathos, Penny Simons * The Book and Reading in Medieval High German Literature, Albrecht Classen * Book Metaphors in the Textual Community, Jean-Marie Kauth * The Language of the Text: Authorship and Textuality in Pearl, The Divine Comedy , and Piers Plowman, Burt Kimmelman * Building Christian Narrative: The Rhetoric of Knowledge, Revelation and Interpretation in Libro de Apolonio, Patricia E. Grieve * Chaucer's Literate Characters Reading Their Texts: Interpreting Infinite Regression, or the Narcissus Syndrome, Jean E. Jost * Story, Picture, and Reading in Wynkyn de Worde's Vitas Patrum, Sue Ellen Holbrook * Reading the Virgin Reader, David Linton * Marie Legens-Maria Legere. St. Marys as an Ideal Reader and St. Mary as a Textbook, Winfred Frey

O autorze

Albrecht Classen