This anthology of newly-translated texts covers the single most important branch of medieval literary theory and criticism-the commentary tradition-in one of the most significant periods of its development. Fully annotated with notes and introductions, the selections encompass a wide range of topics-including authorship, ethics, symbolism, biography, poetics, allegory, and semiotics-and represent many important writers-including Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Grosseteste, Abelard, and Peter Lombard.
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`Superbly executed, this is an extremely impressive and important book for medievalists, literary critics, theorists and cultural historians alike. It will be a standard work for a long time.' Times Higher Education Supplement
A. J. Minnis is at University of York. A. B. Scott is at Queen's University, Belfast. David Wallace is at University of Minnesota.
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