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

Name: Truth and Convention in the Middle Ages Rhetoric, Representation and Reality
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ISBN: 9780521302111

ISBN-10: 0521302110

ISBN-13: 9780521302111

Edition: 1991

Authors: Ruth Morse

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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 language bore a more complex relationship to the objects of representation in the historical past that was depicted. Ruth Morse's challenging book makes a study of the principles of rhetorical invention that operate as a context for the interpretation of medieval historical narratives. It examines the background of medieval education in rhetoric, commentary and invention, and looks at different modes of writing--history, biography and translation. She…

Book details

List price: $103.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/30/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.21" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Preface and acknowledgements


Introduction



Meaning and means



The meaning of the past



Let us now praise famous men



Traitor translator



Texts and pre-texts


Index