Medieval Ovid: Frame Narrative and Political Allegory

Download or read book Medieval Ovid: Frame Narrative and Political Allegory written by A. Gerber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between not only sacred and profane literacy but also between academic and secular politics.