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Seeing Through the Veil : Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory /

"In Seeing through the Veil, Suzanne Conklin Akbari examines several late medieval allegories in the context of contemporary paradigm shifts in scientific and philosophical theories of vision." "Offering a new interdisciplinary, synthetic approach to late medieval intellectual history...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Akbari, Suzanne Conklin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2004]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Illumination and language
  • The multiplication of forms
  • Guillaume de Lorris's Roman de la rose
  • Jean de Meun's Roman de la rose
  • Dante's Vita nuova and convivio
  • Dante's commedia
  • Chaucer's dream visions
  • Chaucer's personification and vestigial allegory in the Canterbury tales
  • Division in darkness.