... numerology, iconography, mathematics and measurement, cryptography, and language itself, or better yet multiple languages, including the spoken word, the language of gems, of flowers, of the landscape, and of gesture. The fundamental tension in the novel is between those, like the inquisitor Bernardo Gui, Jorge de Burgos, Ubertino of Casale, or Adso in old age and that rare medieval- ... site, on a cliff or a hill, was considered ideal for a castle.( Eco, 1983) Sometimes castles were built on a cliffside because of the psychological as well as the physical effect of impregnability.( Eco, ...

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• Approx Pages: 19
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate