Medieval Ovid: Frame Narrative And Political Allegory (the New Middle Ages)
by A. Gerber /
2015 / English / PDF
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Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the
integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle
Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival
as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between
not only sacred and profane literacy but also between academic and
secular politics.
Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the
integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle
Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival
as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between
not only sacred and profane literacy but also between academic and
secular politics.