TY - BOOK AU - Curtius,Ernst Robert TI - European literature and the Latin Middle Ages /Ernst Robert Curtius ; translated from the German by Willard R. Trask T2 - Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks AV - PN674 .E976 1973 PY - 1973/// CY - Princeton, New Jersey PB - Princeton University Press KW - Literature, Medieval KW - History and criticism KW - Latin literature, Medieval and modern N1 - Translation of Europ aische Literatur und lateinisches Mittelalter; Reprint of the edition published by Pantheon Books, New York, which was issued as numbers 36 of the Bollingen series; 4; Bibliography: pages 599-600; European literature --; The Latin Middle Ages --; Literature and education --; Rhetoric --; Topics --; The goddess Natura --; Metaphorics --; Poetry and rhetoric --; Heroes and rulers --; The ideal landscape --; Poetry and philosophy --; Poetry and theology --; The muses --; Classicism --; Mannerism --; The book as symbol --; Dante --; Epilogue --; Misunderstandings of antiquity in the Middle Ages --; Devotional formula and humility --; Grammatical and rhetorical technical terms as metaphors --; Jest and earnest in medieval literature --; Late antique literary studies --; Early Christian and medieval literary studies --; The mode of existence of the medieval poet --; The poet's divine frenzy --; Poetry as perpetuation --; Poetry as entertainment --; Poetry and scholasticism --; The poet's pride --; Brevity as an ideal of style --; Etymology as a category of thought --; Numerical composition --; Numerical apothegms --; Mention of the author's name in medieval literature --; The "chivalric system of the virtues" --; The ape as metaphor --; Spain's cultural "belatedness" --; God as Maker --; Theological art-theory in the Spanish literature of the seventeenth century --; Calderon's theory of art and the Artes liberales --; Montesquieu, Ovid, and Virgil --; Diderot and Horace --; The medieval bases of Western thought; 2 ER -