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The idea of the labyrinth from classical antiquity through the Middle Ages / Penelope Reed Doob.

Title: The idea of the labyrinth from classical antiquity through the Middle Ages / Penelope Reed Doob.
Author: Reed Doob, Penelope
Publication: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1990.

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Description

xviii, 355 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Reconstructs the idea of the labyrinth from the classical period through the Middle Ages, using a variety of literary and visual sources.

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Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Contents

Part one: The labyrinth in the classical and early Christian periods -- Part two: The labyrinth in the middle ages -- Part three: Labyrinth of words: central texts and intertextualities.
List of plates -- Acknowledgments: Four labyrinths -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Charting the maze -- The Cretan labyrinth myth -- Part one. The labyrinth in the classical and early Christian periods. The literary witness: Labyrinths in Pliny, Virgil, and Ovid. The labyrinth as significant form: Two paradigms -- A taxonomy of metaphorical labyrinths -- Part two: The labyrinth in the middle ages. Etymologies and verbal implications -- Mazes in medieval art and architecture -- Moral labyrinths in medieval literature -- Textual labyrinths: Toward a labyrinthine aesthetic -- Part three: Labyrinths of words: Central texts and intertextualities. Virgil's Aenid -- Boethius's Consolation of philosophy -- Dante's Divine comedy -- Chaucer's House of fame -- Appendix: Labyrinths in manuscripts -- Index.

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89023993

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Harvard Library