The High Medieval Dream Vision
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The High Medieval Dream Vision
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Author : Kathryn Lynch
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1988-06-01
The High Medieval Dream Vision written by Kathryn Lynch and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-06-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the High Middle Ages, the dream narrative was an enormously popular and influential form. Along with the romance, it was perhaps the genre of the age. It has come down to us in such classics twelfth to fourteenth-century classics as The Divine Comedy, the Romance of the Rose, Piers Plowman, Chaucer's early poetry, and the works of Guillaume de Machaut. This book redefines the dream vision by attending to its role in philosophical debate of the time, a conservative role in defense of the high medieval synthesis of reason and revelation. Lynch shows how the epistemological basis of this synthesis and the theories of visions that emerged from it drew on Arabic commentaries of Aristotle. These theories informed poetic visions modeled on Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, a work she discusses in detail before turning to Alain de Lille, Jean de Meun, and Dante. A final section, on John Gower's Confessio Amantis shows how fourteenth and fifteenth-century writers extended and finally moved beyond the conventional form of the dream vision.
The High Medieval Dream Vision
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Author : Kathryn Lynch
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1988-06-01
The High Medieval Dream Vision written by Kathryn Lynch and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-06-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the High Middle Ages, the dream narrative was an enormously popular and influential form. Along with the romance, it was perhaps the genre of the age. It has come down to us in such classics twelfth to fourteenth-century classics as The Divine Comedy, the Romance of the Rose, Piers Plowman, Chaucer's early poetry, and the works of Guillaume de Machaut. This book redefines the dream vision by attending to its role in philosophical debate of the time, a conservative role in defense of the high medieval synthesis of reason and revelation. Lynch shows how the epistemological basis of this synthesis and the theories of visions that emerged from it drew on Arabic commentaries of Aristotle. These theories informed poetic visions modeled on Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, a work she discusses in detail before turning to Alain de Lille, Jean de Meun, and Dante. A final section, on John Gower's Confessio Amantis shows how fourteenth and fifteenth-century writers extended and finally moved beyond the conventional form of the dream vision.
Dreaming In The Middle Ages
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Author : Steven F. Kruger
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992-06-18
Dreaming In The Middle Ages written by Steven F. Kruger and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-06-18 with History categories.
Stephen Kruger considers previously neglected material and arrives at a new understanding of this literary genre, and of medieval attitudes to dreaming in general.
Medieval Dream Poetry
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Author : A. C. Spearing
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1976-11-11
Medieval Dream Poetry written by A. C. Spearing and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976-11-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
This 1976 book is a study of the medieval English dream-poem set against classical and medieval visionary and religious writings.
Ekphrastic Medieval Visions
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Author : C. Barbetti
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-10-27
Ekphrastic Medieval Visions written by C. Barbetti and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition.
Medieval Allegory As Epistemology
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Author : Marco Nievergelt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-04-13
Medieval Allegory As Epistemology written by Marco Nievergelt and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Medieval Allegory as Epistemology, Marco Nievergelt argues that late medieval dream-poetry was able to use the tools of allegorical fiction to explore a set of complex philosophical questions regarding the nature of human knowledge. The focus is on three of the most widely read and influential poems of the later Middle Ages: Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose; the Pélerinages trilogy of Guillaume de Deguileville; and William Langland's vision of Piers Plowman in its various versions. All three poets grapple with a collection of shared, closely related epistemological problems that emerged in Western Europe during the thirteenth century, in the wake of the reception of the complete body of Aristotle's works on logic and the natural sciences. This study therefore not only examines the intertextual and literary-historical relations linking the work of the three poets, but takes their shared interest in cognition and epistemology as a starting point to assess their wider cultural and intellectual significance in the context of broader developments in late medieval philosophy of mind, knowledge, and language. Vernacular literature more broadly played an extremely important role in lending an enlarged cultural resonance to philosophical ideas developed by scholastic thinkers, but it is also shown that allegorical narrative could prompt philosophical speculation on its own terms, deliberately interrogating the dominance and authority of scholastic discourses and institutions by using first-person fictional narrative as a tool for intellectual speculation.
The English Dream Vision
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Author : J. Stephen Russell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The English Dream Vision written by J. Stephen Russell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Literary Criticism categories.
Somnium
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Author : Francis Xavier Newman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Somnium written by Francis Xavier Newman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Dreams categories.
Somnium Medieval Theories Of Dreaming And The Form Of Vision Poetry
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Author : Francis X. Newman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Somnium Medieval Theories Of Dreaming And The Form Of Vision Poetry written by Francis X. Newman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Dreams categories.
Nowhere In The Middle Ages
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Author : Karma Lochrie
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Nowhere In The Middle Ages written by Karma Lochrie and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Literary and cultural historians typically cite Thomas More's 1516 Utopia as the source of both a genre and a concept. Karma Lochrie rejects this origin myth of utopianism along with the assumption that people in the Middle Ages were incapable of such thinking. In Nowhere in the Middle Ages, Lochrie reframes the terms of the discussion by revealing how utopian thought was, in fact, "somewhere" in the Middle Ages. In the process, she transforms conventional readings of More's Utopia and challenges the very practice of literary history today. Drawing on a range of contemporary scholarship on utopianism and a broad premodern archive, Lochrie charts variant utopian strains in medieval literature and philosophy that diverge from More's work and at the same time plot uncanny connections with it. Examining works such as Macrobius's fifth-century Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, Mandeville's Travels, and William Langland's Piers Plowman, she finds evidence of a number of utopian drives, including the rejection of European centrality, a desire for more egalitarian politics, and a rethinking of the division between animals and humans. Nowhere in the Middle Ages insists on the relevance and transformative potential of medieval utopias for More's work and positions the sixteenth-century text as one alternative in a broader historical phenomenon of utopian thinking. Tracing medieval utopianisms forward in literary history to reveal their influences on early modern and modern literature and philosophy, Lochrie demonstrates that looking backward, we might extend future horizons of utopian thinking.