Nievergelt Marco (Forward College)
Nievergelt Marco (Forward College) - Medieval Allegory As Epistemology Dream - Vision Poetry On Language Cognition And Experience - Hardcover
Nievergelt Marco (Forward College) - Medieval Allegory As Epistemology Dream - Vision Poetry On Language Cognition And Experience - Hardcover
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Description: In Medieval Allegory as Epistemology Marco Nievergelt argues that late medieval dream - poetry was able to use the tools of allegorical fiction to explore a set of complex philosophical questions regarding the nature of human knowledge. The focus is on three of the most widely read and influential poems of the later Middle Ages: Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose; the P lerinages trilogy of Guillaume de Deguileville; and William Langland's vision of Piers Plowman in its various versions. All three poets grapple with a collection of shared closely related epistemological problems that emerged in Western Europe during the thirteenth century in the wake of the reception of the complete body of Aristotle's works on logic and the natural sciences. This study therefore not only examines the intertextual and literary - historical relations linking the work of the three poets but takes their shared interest in cognition and epistemology as a starting point to assess their wider cultural and intellectual significance in the context of broader developments in late medieval philosophy of mind knowledge and language. Vernacular literature more broadly played an extremely important role in lending an enlarged cultural resonance to philosophical ideas developed by scholastic thinkers but it is also shown that allegorical narrative could prompt philosophical speculation on its own terms deliberately interrogating the dominance and authority of scholastic discourses and institutions by using first - person fictional narrative as a tool for intellectual speculation.
Title: Medieval Allegory As Epistemology Dream - Vision Poetry On Language Cognition And Experience
Author(s): Nievergelt Marco (Forward College)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192849212
Pages: 576 Pages
Publication Date: 7/13/2023
Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
Category: Western Philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, C 500 To C 1600
Description: In Medieval Allegory as Epistemology Marco Nievergelt argues that late medieval dream - poetry was able to use the tools of allegorical fiction to explore a set of complex philosophical questions regarding the nature of human knowledge. The focus is on three of the most widely read and influential poems of the later Middle Ages: Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose; the P lerinages trilogy of Guillaume de Deguileville; and William Langland's vision of Piers Plowman in its various versions. All three poets grapple with a collection of shared closely related epistemological problems that emerged in Western Europe during the thirteenth century in the wake of the reception of the complete body of Aristotle's works on logic and the natural sciences. This study therefore not only examines the intertextual and literary - historical relations linking the work of the three poets but takes their shared interest in cognition and epistemology as a starting point to assess their wider cultural and intellectual significance in the context of broader developments in late medieval philosophy of mind knowledge and language. Vernacular literature more broadly played an extremely important role in lending an enlarged cultural resonance to philosophical ideas developed by scholastic thinkers but it is also shown that allegorical narrative could prompt philosophical speculation on its own terms deliberately interrogating the dominance and authority of scholastic discourses and institutions by using first - person fictional narrative as a tool for intellectual speculation.
Title: Medieval Allegory As Epistemology Dream - Vision Poetry On Language Cognition And Experience
Author(s): Nievergelt Marco (Forward College)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192849212
Pages: 576 Pages
Publication Date: 7/13/2023
Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
Category: Western Philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, C 500 To C 1600
