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

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403976198
• ISBN13: 9781403976192
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 8.5"