The Tree: Symbol, Allegory, and Mnemonic Device in Medieval Art and Thought by

International Medieval Research

The Tree: Symbol, Allegory, and Mnemonic Device in Medieval Art and Thought

258 pages paperback

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With its vital character - growing, flowering, extending its roots into the ground, and its branches and leaves to the sky - the tree is a polyvalent metaphor, a suggestive symbol, and an allegorical subject. During the Middle Ages, a number of ic...

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