Seeing Through the Veil : : Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory /

Seeing Through the Veil : : Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory / / Suzanne Conklin Akbari.

During the later Middle Ages, new optical theories were introduced that located the power of sight not in the seeing subject, but in the passive object of vision. This shift had a powerful impact not only on medieval science but also on theories of knowledge, and this changing relationship of vision...

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Akbari, Suzanne Conklin,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (375 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • 1. Illumination and Language
  • 2. The Multiplication of Forms
  • 3. Guillaume de Lorris's Roman de la rose
  • 4. Jean de Meun's Roman de la rose
  • 5. Dante's Vita nuova and Convivio
  • 6. Dante's Commedia
  • 7. Chaucer's Dream Visions
  • 8. Chaucer's Personification and Vestigial Allegory in the Canterbury Tales
  • 9. Division and Darkness
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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