The prisoner's philosophy
Subtitle: life and death in Boethius's Consolation
By: Joel C. Relihan ; with a contribution on the medieval Boethius by William E. Heise.
Contributors: Heise, William Earnshaw, 1962-
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780268040246
Subjects: Boethius, -- d. 524
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-216) and index.
Table of contents: title: The ironic Consolation and its reception; title: Two digressions and a pointed conclusion; title: Universality and particularity; title: Consolation and the genre of consolation; title: Death and meditation; title: The Odyssey of Consolation; title: Models and rewritings; title: The Menippean Boethius in the personification allegories of the Middle Ages / by William E. Heise; title: The wisdom of Boethius.