Truth and Convention in the Middle Ages: Rhetoric, Representation and Reality

by Ruth Morse

Book Overview

Medieval assumptions about the nature of the representation involved in literary and historical narratives were widely different from our own. Writers and readers worked with a complex understanding of the relations between truth and convention, in which accounts of presumed fact could be expanded, embellished, or translated in a variety of accepted ways. Ruth Morse's challenging and wide-ranging book explores how these assumptions operated in a broad...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521317908
• ISBN13: 9780521317900
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"