Number as a Numerical Reminder, a Signifier, among other numerical forms of Literary Expression - Employed in both Christian and Muslim Accounts of the First Crusade
Journal: MESOS Disiplinlerarasi Ortacag Calismalari Dergisi
Year: 2020

This article provides a brief excursus on some use of number in literature, on the vexed matter of misreading recorded numerical hyperbole, of the use of number as a literary form of expression, numerical figures of speech, and as signifiers, numbers whichperhaps more often than one might think, have been and are being misread -read in a modern literal fashion as a measure of quantity, rather than as an understood Medieval form of literary expression concerning not only the expression of hyperbo