Texts

Associated with Grover Furr's Courses on Medieval Literature

My Medieval Literature and History Page

Introductory Materials, including

• The Universal Hierarchy, source of analogical/allegorical thought.

• The Social Hierarchy: the idealized Medieval view of Medieval society contrasted with a more contemporary historical view.

• The Heliocentric, or Ptolemaic, View of the Created Universe.

Medieval Allegory page, with further links to

• Richard De Bury, selections from the Philobiblion, and a link to the whole text at the University of Virginia Etext archive.

• Dante, selections from the Tenth Letter, to Can Grande della Scala,  with a link to the whole Tenth Letter at the University of Pennsylvania.

• Dante, selections from the Convivio.

• Boccaccio, selections from the Fourteenth Book of the Genealogy of the Pagan Gods.

Francesco da Fiano, on Allegory.

"Fortune", selections from The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius.

Augustine, selections from On Christian Doctrine, on "Love.

Quotations illustrating the use of the Image of the Horse and Rider as Reason and The Flesh.

The Two Hunts, with lots of "glosses."

The Three Stages of Sin, according to St. Augustine.

Chaucer, "Lak of Stedfastnesse".

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