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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Relihan, Joel C. (Author)
Contributors: Heise, William Earnshaw 1962- (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Notre Dame, Ind. University of Notre Dame Press c2007
In:Year: 2007
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus 480-524, De consolatione philosophiae
Further subjects:B Boethius (-524) De consolatione philosophiae
B Boethius d. 524 De consolatione philosophiae
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Description
Item Description: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. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-216) and index
ISBN:0268040249