Download or read book Borges the Unacknowledged Medievalist written by M. Toswell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely unnoticed is that he was a medievalist, and his interest in Germanic medievalism was pervasive throughout his work. This study will consider the medieval elements in Borges creative work and shed new light on his poetry.