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Knowing Poetry: Verse in Medieval France from the 'Rose' to the 'Rhetoriqueurs'
Knowing Poetry Verse in Medieval France from the 'Rose' to the 'Rhetoriqueurs'
Author: Adrian Armstrong, Sarah Kay
In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rhyme. Beginning in the thirteenth century, works of verse narrative from the early Middle Ages were recast in prose, as if prose had become the litera...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801449734
ISBN-10: 0801449731
Publication Date: 5/19/2011
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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