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The Conspiracy of Allusion: Description, Rewriting, and Authorship from Macrobius to Medieval Romance (Studies in Mediaeval and Reformation Thought)

The Conspiracy of Allusion: Description, Rewriting, and Authorship from Macrobius to Medieval Romance (Studies in Mediaeval and Reformation Thought)
By Douglas Kelly

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This text follows the development of the medieval art of imitation through Macrobius and commentaries on Horace's "Art of Poetry" and then applies it to the interpretation of works on th Trojan War, consent in love and marriage, and lyric and vernacular insertions.


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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #2845478 in Books
  • Published on: 1999-10-20
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 313 pages

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'"This book deserves widespread, serious attention as a valuable contribution to our understanding of the conceptual and technical background of the authors of twelfth/ and thirteenth-century vernacular romance.'
Donald Maddox, "Speculum, 2002.