Contrary Things: Exegesis, Dialectic, and the Poetics of Didacticism

by Catherine Brown

This work of intellectual and cultural history seeks to understand the recurring connection of teaching with contradiction in some major texts of the European Middle Ages. It moves comfortably between patristic and monastic exegesis, the Paris schools of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and late medieval Spain; between Latin and vernacular, between religious and secular. It assimilates the methodologies of religious and erotic texts, thereby...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804730091
• ISBN13: 9780804730099
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"