Erotics of Consolation - Desire and Distance in the Late Middle Ages

Zusatztext '...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 Informationen zum 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...

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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

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'...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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• Authors: Catherine Milner Leglu
• Assisted by: C. Leglu (Editor), Catherine E. Leglu (Editor), Léglu (Editor), C Léglu (Editor), C. Léglu (Editor), Milner (Editor), Milner (Editor), S. Milner (Editor), Stephen J. Milner (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2008
• EAN: 9781403976192
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-7619-2
• No. of pages: 249
• Series: The New Middle Ages; The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); B, Cultural History, Social History, Social & cultural history, world history, General & world history, World History, Global and Transnational History, Civilization—History, Psychology of Gender and Sexuality, Psychology of gender, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Medieval Literature, Literature, Medieval, History of Medieval Europe, Europe—History—476-1492, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Sexual psychology, Sexual Behavior, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Dante;history;Late Middle Ages;Middle Ages;Renaissance