Studies in the Medieval Imagination

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Discover the origin of the very discipline we now call “English,” in its emphasis on “close reading” and “critical thinking,” in the medieval habits of reading the Bible allegorically for figurative meaning. Then as now, medieval bookworms sought to uncover the hidden truths that lay just below its surface. In the process, they read, absorbed and in turn produced their own allegorical texts, in which they clothed alien concepts in layers of symbolism and myth.