Truth and Convention in the Middle Ages
Ruth Morse
Cambridge University Press, 1990
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Medieval assumptions about the nature of the representation involved in literary and historical narratives were widely different from our own. Writers and readers worked with a complex understanding of the relations between truth and convention, in which accounts of presumed fact could be expanded, embellished, or translated in a variety of accepted ways.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521302111
- ISBN-10
- 0521302110
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 1990
- Publication date
- 1990-11-30
- Pages
- 312
- Dimensions
- 234x152x22
- Weight
- 570