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Book SynopsisKarl Morrison discusses historical writing at a turning point in European culture: the so-called Renaissance of the twelfth century. Why do texts considered at that time to be masterpieces seem now to be fragmentary and full of contradictions? Morrison maintains that the answer comes from ideas about art. Viewing histories as artifacts made accordi
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. ix*List of Illustrations, pg. xi*Preface, pg. xiii*Acknowledgments, pg. xxv*Abbreviations, pg. xxvii*CHAPTER 1. Interpreters at the Feast, or A Dialogue between Ancients and Moderns, pg. 3*CHAPTER 2. History as an Art of the Imagination, pg. 20*CHAPTER 3. Cognition and Cult, pg. 48*CHAPTER 4. From One Renaissance to Another, pg. 92*CHAPTER 5. The Kingdom of God: A Silence of Intuition, pg. 139*CHAPTER 6. The Hermeneutic Role of Women: A Silence of Comprehension, pg. 154*CHAPTER 7. Text and Time at the Court of Eugenius III: A Silence of Multiplication, pg. 196*CHAPTER 8. Conclusions: A Word on "Medieval Humanism", pg. 245*Index, pg. 251
