Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry
Subtitle: Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus and John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 13, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780521021111
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Semiotics & Theory; Alanus, --de Insulis, --d. 1202.--Anticlaudia; Alanus,--de Insulis,--d. 1202.--Anticlaudianus; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Literary Criticism-Semiotics & Theory; Poetry-Ancient, Classical & Medieval
First sentence: This book is partly about the different ways in which 'scientific' knowledge is presented in the two poems of my title.