In his case, this required committing him to a specific date, reading architectural plans and registers of the holdings of medieval libraries, and even counting the steps in a fourteenth-century stairway. ... He further perplexes ordinary readers with the linguistic challenges of numerous snatches of classical and medieval Latin, French, and German, not to mention the peculiar polyglot speech of one of the characters. ... The readers, too, must navigate between flexibility and rigidity in mapping the postmodern upon the medieval in The Name of the Rose. ... Like all other medieval art forms, a...

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