Into the Woods: Wilderness Imagery as Representation of Spiritual and Emotional Transition in Medieval Literature
Description:
Wilderness landscape, a setting common in Romantic literature and painting, is generally overlooked in the art of the Middle Ages. While the medieval garden and the city are well mapped, the medieval wilderness remains relatively trackless. Yet the use of setting to represent interior experience may be traced back to the Neo-Platonic use of space and movement to define spiritual development. Separating themselves as far as possible from the material world, such writers as Origen and Plotinus av…
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Date:
August 1997
Creator:
Sholty, Janet Poindexter
Partner:
UNT Libraries