The Erotics of Consolation: Desire and Distance in the Late Middle Ages

Product Description


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.


Review


'...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


About the Author


Stephen J. Milner is Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Manchester
Catherine Leglu is Reader in the department of French Studies at the University of Reading