Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry - Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus and John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Hardcover)

This study examines two great poems of the later medieval period, the Latin philosophical epic, Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus (1181-3), and John Gower's English poem, the Confessio Amantis (1390-3). James Simpson locates these works in a cultural context dominated by two kinds of literary humanism, in which the concept of self is centered in the intellect and the imagination respectively, and shows the very different modes of thought that lie behind their conceptions of selfhood and education.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Release date:	April 1995
First published:	1995
Authors:	James Simpson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	334
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-47181-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN:	0-521-47181-8
Barcode:	9780521471817

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