The erotics of consolation
desire and distance in the Late Middle Ages
- ISBN: 9781403976192
- Editorial: Palgrave MacMillan
- Fecha de la edición: 2008
- Lugar de la edición: Hampshire. Reino Unido
- Colección: The new Middle Ages
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 272
- Idiomas: Inglés
The scope of the present volume is to examine the manner in which some of the leading medieval writers in a number of literary genres engaged with the Stoical discourse of consolation. It brings together a very distinguished group of people. This project is clearly organized, it includes fresh insights from scholars old and new, and it ties mental constructs to physical, more erotic expressions. This book could be used by medievalists in literature, history and philosophy.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.
Eds. Catherine E. Léglu, Stephen J. Milner
