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Inventiones: Fiction and Referentiality in Twelfth-Century English Historical Writing
ISBN: 9780807846001 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Combining literary theory and historiography, Monika Otter explores the relationship between history and fiction in the Latin literature of twelfth-century England. The beginnings of fiction have commonly been associated with vernacular romance, but Otter demonstrates that writers of Latin historical narratives also employed the self-referential techniques characteristic of fiction. Beginning with inventiones, a genre dealing with the discovery of saints' relics, Otter reveals how exploring the fundamental problems of writing history and the nature of truth itself leads monastic or...
Combining literary theory and historiography, Monika Otter explores the relationship between history and fiction in the Latin literature of twelfth-ce...
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Goscelin of St Bertin: The Book of Encouragement and Consolation [Liber Confortatorius]
ISBN: 9781843842941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Goscelin's Liber Confortatorius is extraordinary both as an example of high-medieval spiritual practice and as a record of a personal relationship. Written in about 1083 by the monk Goscelin to a protegee and personal friend, the recluse Eva, it takes up the tradition of St Jerome's letters of spiritual guidance to women, and anticipates medieval advice literature for anchoresses. As a compendious treatise, it has much to tell us about the intellectual interests and preoccupations of religious people in the late eleventh century. As a personal document, it allows a fascinating and uncommonly...
Goscelin's Liber Confortatorius is extraordinary both as an example of high-medieval spiritual practice and as a record of a personal relationship. Wr...
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