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Ordering chaos : the self and the cosmos in twelfth-century Latin prosimetrum / by Bridget K. Balint.
Van Pelt Library PA8133.P76 B35 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balint, Bridget K.
- Series:
- Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; v. 3.
- Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts, 0925-7683 ; v. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prose poems, Latin (Medieval and modern)--History and criticism.
- Prose poems, Latin (Medieval and modern).
- Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- x, 242 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
- Contents:
- The writing of prosimetrum in the Middle Ages
- The authority of the consolation
- The interlocutors
- Situating the self
- Truth and instability in the prosimetra
- Fabulous philosophizing after 1170
- Prose and poetry in the prosimetra
- Hildebert of Lavardin, The complaint and quarrel of the body and the soul
- Lawrence of Durham, Consolation on the death of a friend.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-235) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9004174117
- 9789004174115
- OCLC:
- 286435999
- Publisher Number:
- 99946475485
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