Gebundenes Buch

The Erotics of Consolation

Desire and Distance in the Late Middle Ages

Herausgegeben: Léglu, C.; Milner, S.

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Catherine E. Léglu is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol. Stephen J. Milner is Senior Lecturer and Chair at the University of Bristol.

Produktdetails

• The New Middle Ages
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-7619-2
• 2008
• Seitenzahl: 241
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 173mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 439g
• ISBN-13: 9781403976192
• ISBN-10: 1403976198
• Artikelnr.: 23305274

Rezensionen

'...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