This is the first-ever history of the literary theory and criticism
produced during the Middle Ages that covers all the main traditions
in Latin, the major European vernaculars and Byzantine Greek.
Starting with the study of grammar and the formal 'arts' of poetry,
letter-writing and preaching, it proceeds to offer a full
description of the Latin commentary tradition on classical and
classicising literature, followed by explanations of medieval views
on literary imagination and memory and the ways in which certain
texts were believed to achieve moral profit through pleasure.
Subsequent essays explore the diverse theoretical and critical
traditions which developed in the vernacular languages, ranging
from Medieval Irish to Old Norse, Occitan to Middle High German,
concentrating particularly on Dante and his commentators and
Italian humanist criticism. The volume concludes with an
examination of the attitudes to literature and its uses in Greek
Byzantium.
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