Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages

by Gellrich, Jesse M.

• ISBN13: 9780801417221
• ISBN10: 0801417228
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1985-06-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 11
Abbreviations	p. 13
Introduction	p. 17
[1] the Argument of the Book: Medieval Writing and Modern Theory	p. 29
[2] the Semiology of Space in the Middle Ages: on Manuscript Painting, Sacred Architecture, Scholasticism, and Music	p. 51
[3] the Language of Mythology: on Medieval Grammar and Hermeneutics	p. 94
[4] Dante's Liber Occultorum and the Structure of Allegory in the Commedia	p. 139
[5] the Origin of Language Reconsidered: Chaucer's House of Fame	p. 167
[6] Problems of Misreading: the "Prologue" to the Legend of Good Women	p. 202
[7] Interpreting the "Naked Text" in the "General Prologue" to the Canterbury Tales	p. 224
[8] Retrospect: on Historical Change	p. 248
Bibliography	p. 257
Index	p. 287
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