The Erotics of Consolation
Desire and Distance in the Late Middle Ages
Published on 19. May 2008
Book
Hardback
VIII, 241 pages
978-1-4039-7619-2 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays explores consolation and mourning in the varied, sometimes provocative, readings of Boethius and of Stoic consolation by French, English, Italian and German authors, including Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machaut, Chaucer, Wyatt and Queen Elizabeth I.
Reviews / Votes
'...the essays in this volume...offer a welcome, timely, and stimulating reassessment and reassertion of Boethius's centrality to medieval studies.' - Simon Gaunt, King's College London
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Series
Edition
2008
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
VIII, 241 p.
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
381 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-7619-2 (9781403976192)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-09741-5
Schweitzer Classification
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Desire and Distance in the Late Middle Ages
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Persons
Catherine E. Léglu
is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol.
Stephen J. Milner
is Senior Lecturer and Chair at the University of Bristol.
Content
Touching Singularity: Consolation, Philosophy and Poetry in the French Dits; Sarah Kay The Doubled Joys of Troilus and Criseyde; Jessica Rosenfeld The Consolation of Beatrice and Dantes Dream of the Siren as Vilification Cure; Olivia Holmes Yearning and Learning: Spaces of Desire in Jean Lemaire de Belges Concorde des Deux Langages (1511); Adrian Armstrong Coming Together: Consolation and the Rhetoric of Insinuation in Boccaccios Decameron; Stephen J. Milner Stoic Psychotherapy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Petrarchs De Remediis; Letizia A. Panizza Tamainte Consolacion Me Fist Lymaginacion: A Poetics of Mourning and Imagination in Late-Medieval Dits; Helen J. Swift Horizons of Loss: Consolation and the Person in the Ackermann by Johannes von Tepl; Mark Chinca Maternal Consolatio in Antoine de La Sales Le Réconfort de Madame de Fresne; Catherine E. Léglu Boethius Goes to Court: The Consolation as Advice to Princes in the Poetry of Chaucer and Elizabeth I; Deanne Williams