The Tempter's Voice: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature

by Eric Jager

Book Overview

Why was the story of Adam, Eve, and the Serpent so important to medieval literary culture? Eric Jager argues that during the Middle Ages the story of the Fall was incorporated into a comprehensive myth about language. Drawing on a wide range of texts, Jager shows how patristic and medieval authors used the Fall to confront practical and theoretical problems in many areas of life and thought--including education, hermeneutics, rhetoric, feudal politics,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801427533
• ISBN13: 9780801427534
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher