'The Asse to the Harpe': Boethian Music in Chaucer

Author / Editor
Holloway, Julia Bolton.

Title
'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.