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	Allegory in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		People of the Middle Ages consciously drew from the cultural legacies of the ancient world in shaping their institutions and ideas, and so allegory in Medieval literature and Medieval art was a prime mover for the synthesis and transformational continuity between the ancient world and the "new" Christian world.
		Medieval allegorical interpretation of this story is that it prefigures Christ's burial, with the stomach of the whale as Christ's tomb.
		Allegory was even seen in the natural world, as animals, plants, and even non-living things were interpreted in books called bestiaries as symbols of Biblical figures and morals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medieval_allegory (1291 words)

	Medieval literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (encompassing the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca.
		Medieval authors were often overawed by the classical writers and the Church Fathers and tended to re-tell and embellish stories they had heard or read rather than invent new stories.
		While it is true that women in the medieval period were never accorded full equality with men (in fact, misogynist tracts abound, although many sects, such as the Cathars, afforded women greater status and rights), some women were able to use their skill with the written word to gain renown.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medieval_literature (1472 words)

	Allegory - LitWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Allegory attempts to create interest both in the primary story with its characters, events, and setting, and in the ideas and significance the story conveys.
		Allegory is still used as a narrative device in literature today, in drama, poetry, prose, and even comics (Gary Trudeau’s Doonesbury, for example).
		Allegory was most prominent in the Middle Ages, with dream vision and the morality play; other types of allegory common in history are the fable, the parable, and the exemplum.
	litmuse.maconstate.edu /litwiki/index.php/Allegory (299 words)

	Medieval Allegory
		Definition: Allegory is a form of extended metaphor in which objects and persons within a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself.
		Thus, allegory evokes a dual interest: in the events, characters and setting presented; and in the ideas they represent or the significance they bear.
		Allegory is frequently, but not always, concerned with matters of great import: life and death; damnation and salvation; social or personal morality and immorality.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~dschwart/engl512/allegory.html (277 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - allegory
		ALLEGORY [allegory] in literature, symbolic story that serves as a disguised representation for meanings other than those indicated on the surface.
		The allegory is closely related to the parable, fable, and metaphor, differing from them largely in intricacy and length.
		Although allegory is still used by some authors, its popularity as a literary form has declined in favor of a more personal form of symbolic expression (see symbolists).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/allegory.asp (366 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for allegory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He is noted for the poems Myszeidos, an allegory on political disorder, and Monachomachia, a witty inspection of monastic life, as well as for his novels, prose satires (e.g., Satyry, 1779), and fables.
		Allegory and materiality: medieval foundations of the modern debate.
		Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature: Heroic Form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton and Edmund Spenser: Essays on Culture and Allegory.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/00352.html (587 words)

	Untitled
		It is a common misconception to associate allegory almost exclusively with the Middle Ages; in fact, allegory has its origins in classical literature.
		A broad definition of medieval allegory is that it is an extended metaphor.
		Christian allegory was to be read with the eye of faith, and this would lead to an increase of charity (agape) in the world.
	www.montreat.edu /dking/MiddleEnglishLit/NotesonAllegory.htm (1146 words)

	ENG404 Medieval Allegory (Clerk's Tale)
		Allegory may be defined in many ways: from the general and somewhat cryptic view that it is a story that represents another story, to allegory as a vexing puzzle.
		Allegory is taken from the Greek word allegoria, meaning to “speak otherwise.” Allegory is generally an extended metaphor in the form of a story or poem that has a literal meaning and a meaning that is derived from outside the narrative itself.
		When discussing medieval allegory, most critics concur that a firm understanding of the audience is necessary to comprehend the significance of allegorical tropes, or it sentence.
	www.siue.edu /~ejoy/eng404MedievalAllegory.htm (1573 words)

	Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy
		Medieval philosophical texts are written in a variety of literary forms, many peculiar to the period, like the summa or disputed question; others, like the commentary, dialogue, and axiom, are also found in ancient and modern sources but are substantially different in the medieval period from their classical or modern incarnations.
		Medieval philosophical texts have as their formal sources Greek and Arabic commentaries, Neoplatonic treatises, dialogues, and allegories, as well as Aristotelian treatises, and the works of Augustine.
		Though Islamic philosophers had a independent tradition of allegorical literature from which they could draw, the allegories from Medieval Islamic thinkers tend to concern the same Neoplatonic themes of the ascent of the soul and the Neoplatonic structure of the cosmos, allegorizing the stages of emanation from and return to the One.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/medieval-literary (9485 words)

	Irreal (Re)views 1: Defining Irrealism: Scientific Development and Allegorical Possibility by Dean Swinford
		Such assertions apply to medieval cosmological allegories as well, where the divine proportions between the series of interlocked celestial spheres determine the proportions of musical tones (the music of the spheres), architectural forms (as explained by Vitruvius), and the human form itself.
		However, the Irreal work differs from traditional allegory because it indicates the extent to which the language of allegory, and therefore the function and exegesis of allegory, is altered by unprecedented changes in the physical world.
		In medieval allegory, meaning was interpretable because of contextually derived clues which referred to a set of defined symbols, the constancy of which extended beyond the confines of a single work.
	home.sprynet.com /~awhit/review1a.htm (4404 words)

	Bays Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Whereas in western medieval allegory "sensory occurrence pales before the power of figural meaning," in the allegories of the Lotus Sutras the means or representation becomes the end; vehicle and tenor merge.
		2) The social allegory: the sand is the setting for both insect life and the woman in the dune and reverberates metaphorically, likening the oppressive sand dune to human society as a setting for an insect-like mob, and finally becoming symbolic of the oppressive, life-denying, antagonistic world of social obligation.
		3) The psychological allegory: the sand is the grave of the woman’s son and husband and becomes a figure of the destructive force of nature.
	www3.sympatico.ca /knight.sinding/acla/bays.htm (1922 words)

	biblio
		Both Lewis' view of allegory (with its distinction between allegory and sacramental symbolism noted) and the modern conception of symbolism (which, because of its emphasis on symbolic words, disavows allegory as a literary concept) have been "irresponsibly applied" and hurt overall interpretations of The Faerie Queene.
		Lewis' distinction between allegory and symbolism is weakened by calling attention to Greek philosophical writers as well as the way in which Lewis, himself, slips in his owndefinitions in an attempt to pull a text entirely into one category where it obviously contains elements of both.
		Lewis' distinction between medieval allegory and symbolism "suffers from the misleading effects of Coleridge's remarks." Lewis is oversimplifying the Consolation by calling it allegorical merely because it contains an allegorical personification.
	filebox.vt.edu /users/mfrase/biblio.htm (3996 words)

	Allegory - Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Allegory. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		An example of the use of symbolic fictional character in allegory is the romantic Medieval allegory often used animals as characters; this tradition
		Allegory is a webring dedicated to writers in the following categories: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and e-zines.
		Simone Weil on Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
	newinfoseek.com /nwis/allegory.html (443 words)

	Department of English at the University of Toronto - Faculty Bio
		Suzanne Conklin Akbari is associate professor of English and Medieval Studies, and was educated at Johns Hopkins and Columbia.
		Her research interests range from neoplatonism and medieval science in the twelfth century to national identity and religious conflict in the fourteenth century.
		She is writing a book on medieval Orientalism, titled Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450, and co-editing a collection of essays titled Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West.
	www.utoronto.ca /english/faculty/bios/akbari.htm (378 words)

	The Artist's Pen
		Irony also is a type of allegory, but just because a story has lots of irony does not mean the story as a whole is an allegory.
		Allegory is the extreme case of this divergence.
		In medieval art the visual was also a very important medium for learning, and not only for the illiterate.
	www.amybrowning.com /blog (4640 words)

	Characteristic Of Medieval Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A primary characteristic of Medieval Romances is the intricate connection between courtly literature and courtly styles...
		Indeed, one unifying characteristic of Medieval and Renaissance cultures is the...
		characteristic of Medieval Studies -- is a team-taught examination of the development and influence of the legend of Arthur, King of Britain, both in history and in literature...
	medievalliterature.mmmedieval.com /characteristicofmedievalliterature (997 words)

	www.gwales.com - 0708317944, Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages Series: Castles of the Mind - A Study of Medieval ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Allegory, capable as it is of simultaneously literal and symbolic meanings, has always had an attraction for writers.
		There is 'the long Judaeo-Christian tradition of allegorical architectural reverie symbolised by the temple, tabernacle and ark' which was superseded in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries by more contemporary images of the church and cloister and in the later middle ages by secular and domestic structures like the castle and manor.
		The close study of architecturally inspired allegories created by a vast range of authors and their disciples in successive eras provides an amazing insight into the mediaeval mind, an outstanding example being the Castell of Perseverance, a mediaeval morality play.
	www.gwales.com /goto/review/en/0708317944 (467 words)

	On Allegory Oxford June 10-11 2005
		The conference is intended as a forum for the exchange of ideas relating to the understanding of allegory and its impact on multiple aspects of medieval art, thought and life.
		Interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches are particularly encouraged in an attempt to transcend the boundaries of a strictly literary approach to the phenomenon.
		The afterlife of medieval allegory in the Renaissance or in the imagery of metaphysical poetry
	users.ox.ac.uk /~univ1934/allegory.html (297 words)

	Allegory and Naturalism in Ingmar Bergman's Medieval Films
		The two medieval films, The Seventh Seal and The Virgin Spring, though superficially similar in terms of settings and costumes, represent Bergman's dichotomy of impulse in a peculiarly clear and apprehensible form.
		However realistically an allegory is presented, therefore, it can never be detached from its symbolic meaning, as ritual very often is. Dante's Virgil may be a very convincing human character, but he is always at once the figure of reason.
		But her description of Bergman's allegory might just as easily serve for Dante's: ``a story in which the spiritual content is set forth in a concrete action and with characters whose movements are realistic but whose basic function is that of abstract symbols'' (62-63).
	www.leoyan.com /global-language.com/triggs/Bergman (3265 words)

	Miller's Tale; Satan
		ALLEGORY: in medieval literature, any image, story, or action which serves as a disguised representation for meanings other than those indicated on the surface or literal level.
		Allegorical personification stands at the heart of the medieval morality play Everyman, personifying such abstractions as Fellowship and Good Deeds, recounts the death journey of Everyman.
		To the ordinary medieval imagination, the Devil was no figure of speech but a life and blood reality, prowling about everywhere, suggesting temptations and creating all kinds of evil.
	in.paceacademy.org /~ddupree/pages/millerdevil.html (643 words)

	Lamson Library
		Castles Of The Mind : A Study Of Medieval Architectural Allegory
		The Visionary Landscape: A Study In Medieval Allegory
		Hawthorne’s Historical Allegory; An Examination Of The American Conscience [by] John E. Becker
	www.plymouth.edu /library/opac/subjkey/allegory (74 words)

	Medieval Tapestry Lesson Plan: Telling New Stories By Designing Old-Fashioned Tapestries
		Tapestry, warp, weft, embroidery, Middle Ages, medieval, allegory, "The Hunt of The Unicorn", "The Lady and the Unicorn", "The Bayeux Tapestry", "The Acts of the Apostles", Raphael, tapestry cartoons.
		(Allegory is the artistic use of fictional characters and symbols to tell a story and to present truths or generalizations about human existence.) Hunt scenes, battle scenes, and landscapes were also popular medieval tapestry themes, as were verdures.
		The most famous remaining medieval tapestry cartoons were the ones painted by Raphael for "The Acts of the Apostles", a series of tapestries commissioned from a Brussels tapestry shop by Pope Leo X in 1515 for the lower level of Rome's Sistine Chapel.
	www.storyboardtoys.com /gallery/medieval-tapestry-lesson-plan.htm (1542 words)

	allegory
		allegory, in literature, symbolic story that serves as a disguised representation for meanings other than those indicated on the surface.
		a prose narrative, is an allegory of man's spiritual salvation.
		Aholah and Aholibah - Aholah and Aholibah, in the Bible, the sisters in an allegory on Israel's idolatry.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/ent/A0803383.html (346 words)

	Medieval Themes and Topics
		A traditional theory of physiology in which the state of health--and by extension the state of mind, or character--depended upon a balance among the four elemental fluids: blood, yellow bile, phlegm, and fl bile.
		The "humours" gave off vapors which ascended to the brain; an individual's personal characteristics (physical, mental, moral) were explained by his or her "temperament," or the state of theat person's "humours." The perfect temperament resulted when no one of these humours dominated.
		By 1600 it was common to use "humour" as a means of classifying characters; knowledge of the humours is not only important to understanding later medieval work, but essential to interpreting Elizabethan drama, especially the late-16th century genre known as the "comedy of humours" (cf.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~hanly/chaucer/coursematerials/humours.html (479 words)

	Medieval Painted Allegory of the Soul at Death, Swanbourne, Bucks.
		Medieval Painted Allegory of the Soul at Death, Swanbourne, Bucks.
		Finally, below the whole allegory is part of a motto or moralising conclusion in English - ‘Man liveth to die...in...a dream at his fate’.
		But the general drift is clear - this is an allegory contrasting the eventual fates of the Penitent and Impenitent soul respectively.
	www.paintedchurch.org /swanbou.htm (997 words)

	BRILL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This is an unparalleled investigation of the theory and practice of interpretation.
		Concentrating on interpretive allegory, the volume simultaneously opens and organizes new approaches to over two thousand years of critical change.
		Interpretation and Allegory: Antiquity to the Modern Period is the recipient of The Polonsky Foundation 2001 Award for Contributions to Interdisciplinary Study in the Humanities, praising its unparalleled design and the far-reaching breadth of its research, and the unique framework it provides for future study.
	www.brill.nl /product_id338.htm (453 words)

	Amazon.com: The Allegory of Love : A Study in Medieval Tradition (Oxford Paperbacks): Books: C. S. Lewis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This is the book which made C.S. Lewis' reputation as a critic of medieval and renaissance literature; in the original, medieval, sense, it was the "piece" that marked his transition from Apprentice to Master.
		It is probably of interest to note that, according to Lewis himself, the "Chronicles of Narnia" did NOT arise from his studies of allegory, and that their allegorical implications arose spontaneously in his mind.
		Here is where the student of allegory and medieval romantic tradition would probably rate the book a 10, while the laymen will rank it a 3.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192812203?v=glance (1348 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2003009644 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Table of contents for Medieval allegory and the building of the new Jerusalem / Ann R. Meyer.
		Allegory and Architecture: Vitruvius, Virgil, and Bede 17 a.
		Ecclesia et Hierusalem: Allegories of Church and City 91 Part Two: Liturgy and Architecture 99 Chapter Three: Liturgy at St.-Denis and the Apocalyptic Eschatology of High Gothic 100 I.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip043/2003009644.html (498 words)

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