Truth and Convention in the Middle Ages: Rhetoric, Representation and RealityMedieval assumptions about the nature of the representation involved in literary and historical narratives were widely different from our own. Writers and readers worked with a complex understanding of the relations between truth and convention, in which accounts of presumed fact could be expanded, embellished, or translated in a variety of accepted ways. |
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Truth and Convention in the Middle Ages: Rhetoric, Representation and Reality Ruth Morse No preview available - 2005 |
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