Speculative grammar and stoic language theory in medieval allegorical narrative
Subtitle: from Prudentius to Alan of Lille
By: by Jeffrey Bardzell.
Series: Studies in medieval history and culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9780415978521
Subjects: Prudentius, -- b. 348; Alanus, -- de Insulis, -- d. 1202; Allegory; Hermeneutics -- History; Ethics in literature; Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Stoic linguistic, cosmological, and ethical doctrine as precursor to medieval allegory; title: Language and abstraction in prudentian allegory; title: The presence of stoicism in eleventh and twelfth century language theory; title: Alan of Lille's Plaint of nature and the grammar of cosmic bonding.