Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The argument of the book: medieval writing and modern theory
  • The semiology of space in the Middle Ages: on manuscript painting, sacred architecture, scholasticism, and music
  • The language of mythology: on medieval grammar and hermeneutics
  • Dante's Liber occultorum and the structure of allegory in the Commedia
  • The origin of language reconsidered: Chaucer's House of fame
  • Problems of misreading: the "prologue" to The legend of good women
  • Interpreting the "naked text" in the "general prologue" to The Canterbury tales
  • Retrospect: on historical change.