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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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | English. |
| Imprint: | Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2004] |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- 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.