The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History
Subtitle: A Forgotten Heritage (The Middle Ages Series)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: February 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780812213249
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Research; Literature, Medieval; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Romance literature; Medieval; Middle Eastern; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Literary Criticism-Middle Eastern; Arab influences
First sentence: Modern civilization's myriad pretensions to objectivity have unfortunately tended to obscure the fact that much of our writing of history is as much a myth-making activity as that of more primitive societies.