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Consolation in Medieval Narrative

Augustinian Authority and Open Form

  • Hardback
  • 260 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

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This book is the first scholarship to map in detail the shape, origins, and rhetorical function of a narrative form authors in the medieval period learned from Augustine's two great histories: the personal Confessions and the political and ecclesiastical City of God. The form's simple and flexible shape - prospect, fulfillment, interpretive retrospect - derives from Augustine's Christian exegetical practice. Because its meaning resides in retrospective and open interpretation of a climactic center, the form emerges as a consolatory narrative alternative to the closures of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy in key medieval texts manifesting personal, political, and ecclesiastical crisis: Peter Abelard's History of My Calamities, William Langland's Piers Plowman, the anonymous Stanzaic Morte, Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight's Tale, and Thomas More's Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation.
Consolation in Medieval Narrative and Questioning God
Questioning GodConsolation in Medieval Narrative
  • Author

    C. Schrock

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Palgrave Macmillan

  • Published

    May 2015

  • Weight

    450g

  • Page Count

    260

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781137453358

  • ISBN-10

    1137453354

  • Eden Code

    4316370

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