'The Asse to the Harpe': Boethian Music in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Holloway, Julia Bolton.
'The Asse to the Harpe': Boethian Music in Chaucer
- Published
- Michael Masi, ed. Boethius and the Liberal Arts: A Collection of Essays. Utah Studies in Literature and Linguistics, no. 18. (Berne: Peter Lang, 1981), pp. 175-86.
- Description
- Surveys the history and iconography of the "asinus ad liram" topos and examines its use in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," Juan Ruiz's "Libro de buen amor," and TC. Pandarus inverts Philosophy's use of the topos.
- Contributor
- Masi, Michael,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Boethius and the Liberal Arts: A Collection of Essays.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.