Exemplary Comparison from Homer to Petrarch

by Olive Sayce

A magisterial survey, across the entire European literary tradition to the early fourteenth century, of exemplary figures in literary tradition.

The book is a study of comparison and identification with exemplary figures drawn from myth, history and historical legend, the Bible, the authorial canon, and literary tradition, from Homer to the interrelated branches of the medieval European vernacular lyric up to the end of the fourteenth century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843840995
• ISBN13: 9781843840992
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"