Fiction and incarnation : rhetoric, theology, and literature in the Middle Ages /

Fiction and incarnation : rhetoric, theology, and literature in the Middle Ages /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Leupin, Alexandre, 1948-
Uniform title:	Fiction et incarnation. English
Imprint:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.
Description:	xxiv, 259 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism. Theology -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500. Incarnation in literature. Religion and literature. Incarnation in literature. Literature, Medieval. Religion and literature. Theology -- Middle Ages. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4818964

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ISBN:	0816637245 (alk. paper) 0816637253 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-247) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Christian Epistemological Break
1. The Be-Seeming: Cicero and Quintilian
2. The Break: Tertullian
3. Fornication: Saint Augustine
4. Knowledge and Lacunae: Martianus Capella
5. A Divine Harmony: Isidore of Seville
6. "Sancta Simplicitas": The Old French Sequence of Saint Eulalia
7. Axiomatic Fiction; or, Of Books and Heresies: Alain of Lille
8. The Counterfeit: The Roman de Renart
9. Disincarnation: Guillaume de Machaut.