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This chapter argues that for various literary and philosophical reasons, French fourteenth-century poets found the poetry in Boethius’ Consolation more consolatory than Philosophy’s reasoned prose.
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Pierre Courcelle, La Consolation de Philosophie dans la tradition littéraire. Antécédents et postérité de Boèce (Paris: Etudes Augustiniennes, 1967).
See Glynnis M. Cropp, “The Medieval French Tradition,” in Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen and Lodi Nauta, eds., Boethius in the Middle Ages Latin and Vernacular Traditions of the “Consolatio Philosophiae” (Leiden: Brill, 1997), pp. 243–65
Lane Cooper, A Concordance of Boethius. The Five Theological Treatises and the Consolation of Philosophy (Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1928).
John Marenbon, Boethius (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
See Alastair Minnis, “Aspects of the Medieval French andEnglish Traditions of the De Consolatione Philosophiae,” in Boethius. His Life, Thought and Influence, ed. Margaret Gibson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1980), pp. 312–61.
Howard R. Patch, The Goddess Fortuna in Medieval Literature (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927), pp. 17–18.
Daniel Heller-Roazen, Fortune’s Faces. The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).
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Kay, S. (2008). Touching Singularity: Consolation, Philosophy, and Poetry in the French Dit. In: Léglu, C.E., Milner, S.J. (eds) The Erotics of Consolation. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09741-5_2
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