Ramon Llull as a Vernacular Writer: Communicating a New Kind of Knowledge

by Joan Santanach, Albert Soler, Lola Badia

Ramon Llull (1232-1316), mystic, missionary, philosopher and author of narrative and poetry, wrote both in Latin and in Vernacular claiming he had been given a new science to unveil the Truth. This book shows why his Latin and Vernacular books cannot be read as if they had been written in isolation from one another. Llull was an atypical 'scholar' because he enjoyed a form of access to knowledge that differed from the norm and because he organized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855663015
• ISBN13: 9781855663015
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"