The Poetry of Boethius
Title | The Poetry of Boethius PDF eBook |
Author | Gerard J. P. O'Daly |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Christian poetry, Latin |
ISBN |
The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy
Title | The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Blackwood |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 398 |
Release | 2015-04-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0191028118 |
Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, literature was read with the ear as much as with the eye: silent reading was the exception; audible reading, the norm. This highly original book shows that Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy - one of the most widely-read texts in Western history - aims to affect the listener through the designs of its rhythmic sound. Stephen Blackwood argues that the Consolation's metres are arranged in patterns that have a therapeutic and liturgical purpose: as a bodily mediation of the text's consolation, these rhythmic patterns enable the listener to discern the eternal in the motion of time. The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy vividly explores how in this acoustic encounter with the text philosophy becomes a lived reality, and reading a kind of prayer.
Fortune's Prisoner
Title | Fortune's Prisoner PDF eBook |
Author | Boethius |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN |
King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of the Metres of Boethius
Title | King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of the Metres of Boethius PDF eBook |
Author | Boethius |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 160 |
Release | 1835 |
Genre | Didactic poetry, English (Old) |
ISBN |
Boethius
Title | Boethius PDF eBook |
Author | Boethius |
Publisher | Sun & Moon |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy
Title | The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Blackwood |
Publisher | Oxford Early Christian Studies |
Total Pages | 361 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0198718314 |
Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, literature was read with the ear as much as with the eye: silent reading was the exception; audible reading, the norm. This highly original book shows that Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy--one of the most widely-read texts in Western history--aims to affect the listener through the designs of its rhythmic sound. Stephen Blackwood argues that the Consolation's metres are arranged in patterns that have a therapeutic and liturgical purpose: as a bodily mediation of the text's consolation, these rhythmic patterns enable the listener to discern the eternal in the motion of time. The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy vividly explores how in this acoustic encounter with the text philosophy becomes a lived reality, and reading a kind of prayer.
Fortune's Prisoner
Title | Fortune's Prisoner PDF eBook |
Author | Boethius |
Publisher | Carcanet Press |
Total Pages | 108 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Boethius' reputation as a poet is reestablished in these fresh and thoughtful versions.