"Every valley shall be exalted"
the discourse of opposites in Twelfth-Century thought
- ISBN: 9780801440588
- Editorial: Cornell University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2003
- Lugar de la edición: Ithaca. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 171
- Idiomas: Inglés
In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a penniless preacher was also the King of Kings and the last were expected to be first, twelfth-century thinkers brought order to their lives through the creation of opposing categories. In a highly original work, Constance Brittain Bouchard examines this poorly understood component of twelfth-century thought, one responsible, in her view, for the fundamental strangeness of that culture to modern thinking.