Book Of The Incipit: Beginnings in the Fourteenth Century: 28 (Medieval Cultures) - Hardcover

Smith, D. Vance

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816637601 ISBN 13: 9780816637607

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2001

Synopsis

A mostly theoretical and philosophical examination of the concept of beginnings in medieval literature, notably in Piers Plowman, as well as grammar, rhetoric, physics, theology and genealogy. Smith focuses on the ways in which texts begin and how the initiative of beginning, heralded as a call for action, is maintained.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0816637601
• ISBN 13: 9780816637607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320