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Howard, Donald. The Three Temptations: Medieval Man in Search of the World.
Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton University Press. 1966 First Edition
First edition. Octavo, black cloth with gilt titling to spine. xii, 316pp. Bookplate to pastedown, else Vg in a dustwrapper that is sunned to spine. The mediaeval view of the world as defined in a key biblical phrase "for all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world". The author explores these three temptations and the conflict with mediaeval culture as demonstrated in the mediaeval poems, Troilus and Criseyde, Piers Plowman and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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22.00 USD
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