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Written in prison before his brutal execution in AD 524, Boethius's "The Consolation of Philosophy" is a conversation between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' Philosophy, whose instruction restores him to health and brings him to enlightenment. Boethius was an eminent public figure who had risen to great political heights in the court of King Theodoric when he was implicated in conspiracy and condemned to death. Although a Christian, it was to...
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Calling into question the common assumption that the Middle Ages produced no secondary epics, Ann W. Astell here revises a key chapter in literary history. She examines the connections between the Book of Job and Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy - texts closely associated with each other in the minds of medieval readers and writers - and demonstrates that these two works served as a conduit for the tradition of heroic poetry from antiquity through...
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