The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages
Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective-the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive vision available to those without. Mazes simultaneously assert order and chaos, ar...
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Cornell University Press
1990.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Acknowledgments: Four Labyrinths
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Charting the Maze
- PART ONE. The Labyrinth in the Classical and Early Christian Periods
- CHAPTER ONE. The Literary Witness: Labyrinths in Pliny, Virgil, and Ovid
- CHAPTER.TWO. The Labyrinth as Significant Form: Two Paradigms
- CHAPTER THREE. A Taxonomy of Metaphorical Labyrinths
- PART TWO. The Labyrinth in the Middle Ages
- CHAPTER FOUR. Etymologies and Verbal Implications
- CHAPTER FIVE. Mazes in Medieval Art and Architecture
- CHAPTER SIX. Moral Labyrinths in Medieval Literature
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Textual Labyrinths: Toward a Labyrinthine Aesthetic
- PART THREE. Labyrinths of Words: Central Texts and I ntertextualities
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Virgil's Aeneid
- CHAPTER NINE. Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy
- CHAPTER TEN. Dante's Divine Comedy
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Chaucer's House of Fame
- APPENDIX. Labyrinths in Manuscripts
- Index