The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages /
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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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1990.
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Table of 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.