From: Medium Aevum | Date: September 22, 1994| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1994 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Artes 'literature'? There have been numerous attempts to impose new definitions on the books, poems, texts, works, treatises, compositions, writings with which mediaevalists are confronted, many of them stimulated by the observation that in the transmission of mediaeval literature works are put together that today we would put in separate and mutually exclusive categories. Up to a point (but only up to a point) 'literature' in the sense of 'belles lettres' is an anachronism. The expression 'artes literature', which is catalogued for the area of Middle Dutch in this volume, is an ...

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