Fiction and Incarnation: Rhetoric, Theology, and Literature in the Middle Ages

by David Laatsch and Alexandre Leupin

A fresh look at the relationship between theology and rhetoric.

Focusing on the Incarnation-the only dogma original to Christianity, in which God becomes man and history-this book offers a wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated investigation of the relationship between Christian discourse and literature from Roman antiquity to the fourteenth century through a look at texts by Cicero, Quintilian, Martianus Capella, Tertullian,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816637253
• ISBN13: 9780816637256
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 9.2"