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Hardcover Authority and Imitation: A Study of the Cosmographia of Bernard Silvestris Book

ISBN: 9004256911

ISBN13: 9789004256910

Authority and Imitation: A Study of the Cosmographia of Bernard Silvestris

The Cosmographia is one of the most inventive and enigmatic works of medieval literature. Mark Kauntze argues that this allegory of creation is best understood as a product of the vibrant intellectual culture of twelfth-century France. Bernard Silvestris established the authority of his treatise by imitating those ancient philosophers and poets who were assiduously studied in the contemporary schools. But he also revised and updated them, to...

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