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