By Suzanne Reynolds
This ebook investigates how humans discovered to learn within the center a while. It makes use of glosses--medieval academics' notes--on classical Latin texts to teach how those complicated works have been utilized in a truly uncomplicated and literal method within the school room, and argues that this has profound implications for our figuring out of medieval literacy and hermeneutics. Suzanne Reynolds discusses concerns together with the connection of Latin and vernacular languages, the position of classical texts in medieval tradition, rules of allegory within the center a long time, and medieval literary concept.
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