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Allegory in the Middle Ages was a vital element in the synthesis of biblical and classical traditions into what would become recognizable as medieval culture. People of the Middle Ages consciously drew from the cultural legacies of the ancient world in shaping their institutions and ideas, and so allegory in medieval literature and medieval art was a prime mover for the synthesis and transformational continuity between the ancient world and the "new" Christian world. People of the Middle Ages did not see the same break between themselves and their classical predecessors that modern observers see; rather, they saw continuity with themselves and the ancient world, using allegory as a synthesizing agent that brings together a whole image.

medieval literature medieval art allegory

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  1. Stephen A. Barney (1989). "Allegory". Dictionary of the Middle Ages. vol-1. ISBN:0-684-16760-3
  2. William R. Cook and Ronald B. Herzman (2001). Discovering the Middle Ages. The Teaching Company. ISBN:1-56585-701-1
  3. The Book of Beasts, trans. T. H. White
  4. Norman F. Cantor, The Civilization of the Middle Ages, 1993:40. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321173.The_Civilization_of_the_Middle_Ages
  5. Florin Calian (2013).“Clarifications” of Obscurity: Conditions for Proclus’s Allegorical Reading of Plato’s Parmenides Obscurity in Medieval Texts (Krems: Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256848245_Clarifications_of_Obscurity_Conditions_for_Proclus's_Allegorical_Reading_of_Plato's_Parmenides
  6. Robert Lamberton (1989). Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition (London: University of California Press).
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