Desiring Truth: The Process of Judgment in Fourteenth-Century Art and Literature

by Jeremy Lowe

Overview

First published in 2005. Volumes in the Medieval History and Culture series include studies on individual works and authors of Latin and vernacular literatures, historical personalities and events, theological and philosophical issues, and new critical approaches to medieval literature and culture. Momentous changes have occurred in Medieval Studies in the past thirty years, in teaching as well as in scholarship. The Medieval History and Culture series enhances research in the held by providing an outlet for monographs by scholars in the early stages of their careers on all topics related to the broad scope of Medieval Studies, while at the same time pointing to and highlighting new directions that will shape and define scholarly discourse in the future. This volume explores a methology for articulating this relationship that fourteenth-century texts invite us to participate in the production of meaning: judgment, the willed act of moral engagement, and therefore the process, a living, evolving relationship, an open circuit between text and respondent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415972406
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/04/2005
Series:	Studies in Medieval History and Culture , #30
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter One Sympathetic Part icipation and the Via Positiva; Chapter Two Visual Fascination and Two Illustrated Prayer Books; Chapter Three The Multiple Modes of The Parlement of the Thre Ages and Piers Plowman; Chapter Four The Cinematic Consciousness of the Pearl-Poet; Conclusion;