Research Catalog

Title

Consolation in Medieval Narrative : Augustinian Authority and Open Form / Chad D. Schrock.

Author

Schrock, Chad D., 1978-

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015]

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Details

Description

xvi, 240 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• "This book is the first scholarship to map in detail the shape, origins, and rhetorical function of a narrative form authors in the medieval period learned from Augustine's two great histories: the personal Confessions and the political and ecclesiastical City of God. The form's simple and flexible shape - prospect, fulfillment, interpretive retrospect - derives from Augustine's Christian exegetical practice. Because its meaning resides in retrospective and open interpretation of a climactic center, the form emerges as a consolatory narrative alternative to the closures of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy in key medieval texts manifesting personal, political, and ecclesiastical crisis: Peter Abelard's History of My Calamities, William Langland's Piers Plowman, the anonymous Stanzaic Morte, Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight's Tale, and Thomas More's Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation. "--
• "This book explores how medieval writers provided consolation for personal stories that did not end well by telling those stories in terms of sacred history, which for them had not ended well yet. They knew how to do this because Augustine, in Confessions and City of God, did it first"--

Series Statement

The New Middle Ages

Uniform Title

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Subject

• Augustine, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, -604? > Influence
• Literature, Medieval > History and criticism
• Christianity and literature
• Narration (Rhetoric)
• Consolation in literature
• Confession in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction1. For the Time Being: Interpretive Consolation in Augustinian Time2. 'Quanto minorem consideras': Abelard's Proportional Consolation3. Three Figures of the Church: Piers Plowman and the Quest for Consolation4. Augustine and Arthur: The Stanzaic Morte and the Comforts of Elegy5. Chaucer's Knight's Tale: Consolations at War6. The Tower and the Turks: More's Meditative ConsolationConclusion.

Call Number

JFD 15-2874

ISBN

• 9781137453358 (hardback)
• 1137453354 (hardback)

LCCN

2014044340

OCLC

911351269

Author

Schrock, Chad D., 1978- author.

Title

Consolation in Medieval Narrative : Augustinian Authority and Open Form / Chad D. Schrock.

Publisher

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The New Middle Ages

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 15-2874