The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction

Jesse M. Gellrich, Carolynn Lund Mead

Quaderni d italianistica · 1989 · 35 citations · 0 references

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Gellrich defines the medieval "idea of the book" as a "particular form" of the "larger, mythologizing phenomenon of Western tradition" (20).