The Arts of Poetry and Prose

by Douglas Kelly

This fascicule on the medieval arts of poetry and prose emphasizes the Latin treatises. In order to demonstrate their significance - they are few in number - it has been necessary to locate them in the intellectual and scholastic milieux where they were used, and apart from which their real purpose would be, and has been, misunderstood. This will account for the rather large number of references to related or parallel genres. The treatises were part...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2503360599
• ISBN13: 9782503360591
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 182 Pages