{"product_id":"tracing-the-trails-in-the-medieval-world","title":"Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e to Marie de France, Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Strassburg, and Guillaume de Lorris to Petrarch and Heinrich Kaufringer, predicated their works on the notion of the trail and elaborated on its epistemological function. We can grasp here an essential concept that determines much of medieval and early modern European literature and philosophy, addressing the direction which all protagonists pursue, as powerfully illustrated also by the anonymous poets of \u003ci\u003eHerzog Ernst\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e. Dante’s \u003ci\u003eDivina Commedia\u003c\/i\u003e, in fact, proves to be one of the most explicit poetic manifestations of the fundamental idea of the trail, but we find strong parallels also in powerful contemporary works such as Guillaume de Deguileville’s \u003ci\u003ePèlerinage de la vie humaine\u003c\/i\u003e and in many mystical tracts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54232291803480,"sku":"9780367566708","price":51.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780367566708_54dff344-21d1-442a-81e1-fa3728186372.jpg?v=1768998633","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/tracing-the-trails-in-the-medieval-world","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}