Ordering chaos
Subtitle: the self and the cosmos in twelfth-century Latin prosimetrum
By: by Bridget K. Balint.
Series: Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts -- v. 3
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9789004174115
Subjects: Prose poems, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The writing of prosimetrum in the Middle Ages; title: The authority of the consolation; title: The interlocutors; title: Situating the self; title: Truth and instability in the prosimetra; title: Fabulous philosophizing after 1170; title: Prose and poetry in the prosimetra; title: Hildebert of Lavardin, The complaint and quarrel of the body and the soul; title: Lawrence of Durham, Consolation on the death of a friend.