Obscurity in medieval texts
By: edited by Lucie Doležalová, Jeff Rider, and Alessandro Zironi
Series: Medium aevum quotidianum. Sonderband -- XXX; Medium Aevum Quotidianum -- 30.
Publisher: Medium Aevum Quotidianum
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Krems, Österreich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9783901094323; 9783901094326
Subjects: Medieval Literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contributions in English, French and Italian.
Table of contents: title: Textual obscurity in the Middle Ages : introduction  -- Lucie Doležalová, Jeff Rider, and Alessandro Zironi; title: "Clarifications" of obscurity : conditions for Proclus's allegorical reading of Plato's Parmenides  -- Florin George Călian; title: Lucifica nigris tunc nuntio regna figuris : poétique textuelle de l'obscuritas dans les recueils d'énigmes latines du Haut moyen Age (VIIe-VIIIe s.)  -- Christiane Veyrard-Cosme; title: The enigmatic style in twelfth-century French literature  -- Jeff Rider; title: Mise en abyme in Marie de France's "Laüstic"  -- Susan Small; title: Perturbations of the soul : Alexander of Ashby and Aegidius of Paris on understanding biblical obscuritas  -- Greti Dinkova-Bruun; title: Versus obscuri nella poesia didascalica grammaticale del XIII sec.  -- Carla Piccone; title: Disclosing secrets : Virgil in Middle High German poems  -- Alessandro Zironi; title: Obscuritas legum : traditional law, learned jurisprudence, and territorial legislation (the example of Sachsenspiegel and Ius Municipale Maideburgense)  -- Hiram Kümper; title: To be born (again) from God : scriptural obscurity as a theological way out for Cornelius Agrippa  -- Noel Putnik; title: Obscuritas in medieval and humanist translation theories  -- Réka Forrai; title: The darkness within : first-person speakers and the unrepresentable -- Päivi M. Mehtonen.