Logic, Theology, and Poetry in Boethius, Abelard, and Alan of Lille : Words in the Absence of Things /

This interdisciplinary study offers an interpretation of the major logical, philosophical/theological and poetic writings of Boethius, Abelard and Alan of Lille. The author examines their theories of language and the ways in which they explore how words illuminate things, how the mind comprehends Go...

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Main Author:	Sweeney, Eileen C. (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Series:	New Middle Ages.
Subjects:	Literature. Epistemology. History of Medieval Europe. Medieval Literature. Medieval Philosophy. Philosophy of Language. Religious Studies, general. Knowledge, Theory of. Language and languages > Philosophy. Literature, Medieval. Philosophy, Medieval. Religion. Europe > History-476-1492. Electronic books.
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