Contrary things
Subtitle: exegesis, dialectic, and the poetics of didacticism
By: Catherine Brown.
Series: Figurae; Figurae (Stanford, Calif.)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Didactic literature -- History and criticism; Poetics -- History -- To 1500; Education, Medieval; Logic, Medieval
Description: This work of intellectual and cultural history seeks to understand the recurring connection of teaching with contradiction in some major texts of the European Middle Ages. It moves comfortably between patristic and monastic-exegesis, the Paris schools of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and late medieval Spain; between Latin and vernacular, between religious and secular.

It assimilates the methodologies of religious and erotic texts, thereby displaying the investment of each in the sensuality and analytical power of language.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-206) and index.