Fiction and incarnation
Subtitle: rhetoric, theology, and literature in the Middle Ages
By: Alexandre Leupin ; translated by David Laatsch.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.; Theology -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Incarnation in literature.; Religion and literature -- History -- To 1500.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the Christian epistemological break; title: The be-seeming: Cicero and Quintilian; title: The break: Tertullian; title: Fornication: Saint Augustine; title: Knowledge and lacuna: Martianus Capella; title: A divine harmony: Isidore of Seville; title: "Sancta simplicitas": the old French "Sequence of Saint Eulalia"; title: Axiomatic fiction; or, of books and heresies: Alan of Lille; title: The counterfeit: the "Roman de Renart"; title: Disincarnation: Guillaume de Machaut.