Visualizing Boethius's Consolation as Romance
- Author / Editor
- Astell, Ann W.
Visualizing Boethius's Consolation as Romance
- Published
- Carmina Philosophiae 3: 23-36, 1994.
- Description
- Argues that Boethius's "Consolation" inspired many "amatory imitations" (especially the "Roman de la Rose" and TC) because its opening scene parallels--and perhaps helped inspire--the visual commonplace of the (love)sick man tended by a female who nurses him back to health, recurrently used in illustrations of the "Roman" and TC. Includes five black-and-white figures.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.