Seeing through the veil : optical theory and medieval allegory /

"In Seeing through the Veil, Suzanne Conklin Akbari examines several late medieval allegories in the context of contemporary paradigm shifts in scientific and philosophical theories of vision." "Offering a new interdisciplinary, synthetic approach to late medieval intellectual history...

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Author / Creator: Akbari, Suzanne Conklin (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2004]
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505 0 |a Illumination and language -- The multiplication of forms -- Guillaume de Lorris's Roman de la rose -- Jean de Meun's Roman de la rose -- Dante's Vita nuova and convivio -- Dante's commedia -- Chaucer's dream visions -- Chaucer's personification and vestigial allegory in the Canterbury tales -- Division in darkness. 
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