Rise and fall: tropes of verticality in Middle English literature

While excellent scholarly work exists on medieval space, especially in cultural geography, no book-length study of the conceptual implications of medieval vertical space exists. Attention has been lavished on the surface of the medieval world, while the heights go unseen and the depths go unplumbed....

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Main Author: Rodriguez, Joseph Paul
Other Authors: Sponsler, Claire
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2012
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1387
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5426&context=etd