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249 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780801449734
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 15 May 2011
Description
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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249 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780801449734
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 15 May 2011
Description
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...