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Knowing Poetry : Verse in Medieval France from the "Rose" to the "Rhétoriqueurs" /

In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rhyme. Beginning in the thirteenth century, works of verse narrative from the early Middle Ages were rec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Armstrong, Adrian
Other Authors: Dixon, Rebecca, Kay, Sarah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo

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