Medieval Rhetoric

by James Jerome Murphy, University of Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies

1989 · University of Toronto Press

The history of medieval rhetoric can be understood only as part of medieval efforts to understand the manifold uses of language.

Medieval Latin Palaeography

by Leonard E. Boyle, University of Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies

1984 · University of Toronto Press

A comprehensive bibliography of medievel palaeontology for a student's use.

Medieval Christian Literary Imagery

by Robert Earl Kaske, Arthur Groos, Michael W. Twomey, University of Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies

1988 · University of Toronto Press

If a reader of Chaucer suspects that an echo of a biblical verse may somehow depend for its meaning on traditional commentary on that verse, how does he or she go about finding the relevant commentaries? If one finds the word 'fire' in a context that suggests resonances beyond the literal, how does that reader go about learning what the traditional figurative meanings of fire were? It was to the solution of such difficulties that R.E. Kaske addressed himself in this volume setting out and analyzing the major repositories of traditional material: biblical exegesis, the liturgy, hymns and sequences, sermons and homilies, the pictorial arts, mythography, commentaries on individual authors, and a number of miscellaneous themes. An appendix deals with medieval encyclopedias. Kaske created a tool that will revolutionize research in its designated field: the discovery and interpretation of the traditional meanings reflected in medieval Christian imagery.