Bridget K. Balint, "Ordering Chaos: The Self and the Cosmos in Twelfth-Century Latin Prosimetrum"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 9004174117 | PDF | pages: 254 | 1.5 mb
English | 2009 | ISBN: 9004174117 | PDF | pages: 254 | 1.5 mb
This book investigates five innovative twelfth-century prosimetrical texts inspired by Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy, the difficulties that arose when these writers attempted to recapture Boethian certainty, and the survival of aspects of this literary mode in later Latin and vernacular literature.