A History of Christian-Latin Poetry: From the Beginnings to the Close of the Middle Ages
F.J.E. Raby, "A History of Christian-Latin Poetry: From the Beginnings to the Close of the Middle Ages"
Oxford University Press | 1927 | ISBN: 0198143249 | PDF | 506 pages | 6.4 MB
Oxford University Press | 1927 | ISBN: 0198143249 | PDF | 506 pages | 6.4 MB
The literary history of the Middle Ages remains and will long remain to be written. An account of the history of medieval Latin poetry has this advantageit moves along the broad lines of intellectual and social growth, and of religious development. It will be found to contain the names of many of the great men within the Church, who helped to build up the fabric of the new Christian civilization out of the apparent wreck of the ancient world.