The Mirror of Language. A Study in the Medieval Theory of Knowledge. Yale Historical Publications Miscellany 88.

Colish, Marcia L.:

Published by New Haven and London : Yale University Press, 1968

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404 Seiten. Sehr gutes Exemplar, lediglich der Einband mit einigen Läsuren. / Very good copy, only the binding with some small lesions. - EN: This is the first interpretation to root medieval symbolism in a verbal theory of signs derived from Biblical and classical sources. Miss Colish maintains that a fusion of classical sign theory, especially Aristotle's, with Biblical texts and the imperatives of Christian theology supplied medieval thinkers with confidence that a world of spiritual reality prior to the material world did exist, that the material world resembled the spiritual world to some extent, and that empirically perceptible signs could lead to a true knowledge of prior and nonsensible realities. The emphasis on words as the principal medium of religious knowledge was a consequence of the stress which theology laid on Christ the Word as mediator between God and man. The author supports her argument by carefully tracing the development of sign theory from its initial formulation in the mode of rhetoric by Augustine, through its association with grammar and dialectic in Anselm and Aquinas, to its ultimate reintegration with rhetoric in the poetic theory and practice of Dante. Her cogent analyses and provocative reinterpretations of specific texts and arguments are consistently stimulating. Yale Historical Publications, Miscellany, 88. Miss Colish is assistant professor of history at Oberlin College." / Contents: Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- St. Augustine: The Expression of the Word -- St. Anselm: The Definition of the Word -- St. Thomas Aquinas -- The Conception of the Word -- DANTE: Poet of Rectitude Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Seller Inventory # 1221905

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Title: The Mirror of Language. A Study in the ...

Publisher: New Haven and London : Yale University Press

Publication Date: 1968

Binding: Pp. im Orig.-Schutzumschlag.

Condition: Sehr gut