Every valley shall be exalted: the discourse of opposities in Twelfth-century thought
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- Verlag CORNELL
- Schriftsteller Bouchard, Constance B.
- ISBN13 9780801440588
- ISBN10 0801440580
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 171
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2003
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Stoffeinband
Every valley shall be exalted: the discourse of opposities in Twelfth-century thought
Scholars have long recognized that dialectical reasoning was the basic approach to philosophical, legal, and theological matters in the high Middle Ages. Bouchard argues that this way of thinking and categorizing-which she terms a "discourse of opposites"-permeated all aspects of medieval thought. She rejects suggestions that it was the result of imprecision, and provides evidence that people of that era sought not to reconcile opposing categories but rather to maintain them.
Bouchard scrutinizes the medieval use of opposites in five broad areas: scholasticism, romance, legal disputes, conversion, and the construction of gender. Drawing on research in a series of previously unedited charters and the earliest glossa manuscripts, she demonstrates that this method of constructing reality was a constitutive element of the thought of the period.
- Verlag CORNELL
- Schriftsteller Bouchard, Constance B.
- ISBN13 9780801440588
- ISBN10 0801440580
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 171
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2003
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Stoffeinband
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