• Per speculum: Seeing mirrors in The Romance of the Rose and Pearl 

      Durney-Benson, Orana Loren; Paynter-Sanz, Eliza (Nom de plume)
      Published 2022-06-01
      In the twenty-first century, we are used to thinking of our eyes as clear windows onto the world around us. For audiences in the later Middle Ages, however, the human eye was a speculum, a dark mirror that alienated gazers ...
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