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

by Mark Kauntze

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004256911
• ISBN13: 9789004256910
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.4"