Monuments of Time: Time and the Semiology of Inscription in the Literature of the Later Middle Ages

Author / Editor
Robeson, Lisa G.

Title
Monuments of Time: Time and the Semiology of Inscription in the Literature of the Later Middle Ages

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 451A.

Description
Ancient writings, especially inscriptions in stone, impressed the medieval reader as the most reliable of records of past wisdom, even though they might be paradoxical or, eventually, disregarded. Considers "Queste del Saint Graal," HF, and Malory.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.