The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory

CHAPTER I.

THE FUNCTION OF LATIN.

Reasons for not noticing the bulk of mediaeval Latin literature. Excepted divisions. Comic Latin literature. Examples of its verbal influence. The value of burlesque. Hymns. The _Dies Irae_. The rhythm of Bernard. Literary perfection of the Hymns. Scholastic Philosophy. Its influence on phrase and method. The great Scholastics 1