Mediation and Love: A Study of the Medieval Go-Between in Key Romance and Near-Eastern Texts

Contributor(s): Rouhi, Leyla (Author)

ISBN: 9789004112681

Publisher: Brill

$174.00

Pub Date: March 19, 1999

Dewey: 809.9335

LCCN: 98053963

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.99" H x 9.60" L x 6.44" W ( 1.62 lbs) 316 pages

BISAC Categories:

Literary Criticism | Medieval | History | Europe

Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: This study offers a comprehensive typology of the Figure of the Medieval go-between across several Near-Eastern and European genres, and pays special attention to the role of intertextuality and history in the conception of the figure.

Review Quotes: "...sensitive and accurate. Readers will learn much from this book...M."
Oliver Leaman, Journal of Early Modern History, 2002.

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