Diehl, Patrick S.

The Medieval European Religious Lyric: An Ars Poetica

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #002369

xi, 357 p.p. Black cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Light bumping to spine ends. Illustrated dust jacket. Text is bright and clean. This study offers a detailed comparative description of the functions, forms and rhetoric of medieval religious lyric in the two languages of the liturgy--Latin and Greek--and in nine medieval vernaculars. This work provideas an anatomy of the medieval religious lyric without rival.

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