Desire Against the Law: The Juxtaposition of Contraries in Early Medieval Spanish Literature

by James F. Burke

The churches and manuscripts of medieval Europe incessantly juxtapose imagery depicting sacred themes with likenesses of the crudest and basest nature. This book examines such contrasts in six major works of pre-1350 Spanish literature, arguing that medieval writers and artists subscribed to the classical belief that one must introduce the contrary of a concept in order to elucidate it fully. To explain this play of opposites, the author draws...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804729360
• ISBN13: 9780804729369
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"