Knowing Poetry: Verse in Medieval France from the Rose to the Rhetoriqueurs by Adrian Armstrong

Knowing Poetry: Verse in Medieval France from the Rose to the Rhetoriqueurs

Adrian Armstrong with Finn E. Sinclair, Francesca Nicholson, Rebecca Dixon, Sylvia Huot, Sarah Kay, Miranda Griffin

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In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rhyme. Beginning in the thirteenth century, works o...

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