The prisoner's philosophy : life and death in Boethius's Consolation

Author/Creator:

Relihan, Joel C.

Publication/Creation:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2007]

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

The prisoner's philosophy : life and death in Boethius's Consolation / Joel C. Relihan ; with a contribution on the medieval Boethius by William E. Heise

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Additional Author/Creators:

Heise, William Earnshaw, 1962-

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Boethius,-524.De consolatione philosophiae

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

The ironic Consolation and its reception -- Two digressions and a pointed conclusion -- Universality and particularity -- Consolation and the genre of consolation -- Death and meditation -- The Odyssey of Consolation -- Models and rewritings -- The Menippean Boethius in the personification allegories of the Middle Ages / by William E. Heise -- The wisdom of Boethius.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xiv, 222 pages ; 23 cm

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Table of contents only

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990006386550302486

ISBN:

0268040249 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780268040246 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780268040246

OCLC Number:

71312731

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International Article Number: 9780268040246

Barcode:

010001151562