How the West Was Won : Essays on Literary Imagination, the Canon, and the Christian Middle Ages for Burcht Pranger (Brill's Studies in Itellectual His

This volume contains articles on various aspects of literary imagination, with essays ranging from Petrarch to Voltaire, on the canon, with essays on western history as one of shifting cultural ideals, and on the Christian Middle Ages. The volume is a Festschrift for Burcht Pranger of the University of Amsterdam.