... the new historicists, with their invocation of "the historicity of texts and the textuality of history," were transforming the way readers understood the English Renaissance, Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose became both a critical success and a bestseller. (1983) Widely celebrated as a postmodern historical ... not only to represent a higher reality but also to teach a moral lesson. And what is taught by the structures at this Benedictine abbey? Reading the site plan of the abbey in conjunction with the site plan of an ideal monastery, such as that planned for St. Gall, ... desc...

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