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Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World - Epistemological Explorations, Orientation, and Mapping in Medieval Literature (Hardcover)
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Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World - Epistemological Explorations, Orientation, and Mapping in Medieval Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
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Every human being knows that we are walking through life following
trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from
the anonymous composer of Beowulf to Marie de France, Hartmann von
Aue, Gottfried von Strassburg, and Guillaume de Lorris to Petrarch
and Heinrich Kaufringer, predicated their works on the notion of
the trail and elaborated on its epistemological function. We can
grasp here an essential concept that determines much of medieval
and early modern European literature and philosophy, addressing the
direction which all protagonists pursue, as powerfully illustrated
also by the anonymous poets of Herzog Ernst and Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight. Dante's Divina Commedia, in fact, proves to be one of
the most explicit poetic manifestations of the fundamental idea of
the trail, but we find strong parallels also in powerful
contemporary works such as Guillaume de Deguileville's Pelerinage
de la vie humaine and in many mystical tracts.
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