Truth and Convention in the Middle Ages
Subtitle: Rhetoric, Representation and Reality
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 30, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780521302111
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Rhetoric (General); Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Rhetoric, Medieval; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Rhetoric; Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Rhetoric, Medieval Rhetoric, Medieval; History; Narration (Rhetoric); To 1500
First sentence: When the educational habits that were developed in classical antiquity devolved upon the countries of medieval Europe, they created standards and raised problems for the Christian West.