Truth and Convention in the Middle Ages: Rhetoric, Representation and Reality by Ruth Morse

Truth and Convention in the Middle Ages: Rhetoric, Representation and Reality

Ruth Morse

312 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art history literary challenging informative medium-paced
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Medieval assumptions about the nature of literary and historical narrative representation were widely different from our own. Writers and readers looked for truths that were not necessarily literal or empirical fact, and the embellishments of lang...

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