Beyond Consolation: The Ethics and Politics of Sorrow in Late Medieval England.
- Author / Editor
- Wilson, Sarah Elizabeth.
Beyond Consolation: The Ethics and Politics of Sorrow in Late Medieval England.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. Northwestern University, 2020. Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; accessed August 18, 2025.
- Description
- Item not seen. From the abstract: "The chapters examine a range of Middle English literary texts that respond to the prescriptive recommendations for mourning outlined in Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy and in the . . . penitential literature that emerged in the decades after the Fourth Lateran Council . . . , [including discussion of works by] authors such as Langland, Chaucer and Hoccleve."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism