The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-19-286402-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 584 g

Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, literature was read with the ear as much as with the eye: silent reading was the exception; audible reading, the norm. This highly original book shows that Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy - one of the most widely-read texts in Western history-aims to affect the listener through the designs of its rhythmic sound. Stephen Blackwood argues that the Consolation's metres are arranged in patterns that have a therapeutic and liturgical purpose: as a bodily mediation of the text's consolation, these rhythmic patterns enable the listener to discern the eternal in the motion of time. The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy vividly explores how in this acoustic encounter with the text philosophy becomes a lived reality, and reading a kind of prayer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blackwood, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Notes to Reader

- Introduction

- Part I: The Metres of Book One

- 1: Imprisoned by Rhythm

- 2: Rhythmic Intervention

- Conclusion to Part I

- Part II: Repeated Metres

- 3: The First Four

- 4: The Final Two

- Conclusion to Part II

- Part III: Repetition and Recollection: a System of Rhythmic Sound

- 5: Formal Structure

- 6: Functional Purpose

- 7: Analogies

- Conclusion to Part III

- Part IV: A Meditation on Book Five

- 8: Repetition, Narration, and the Meditative Ascent

- 9: Freedom, Providence, and Prayer

- Conclusion to Part IV

- Conclusion

- Appendix A, The Poems of Book 1

- Appendix B, Figures

- List of Figures

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen J. Blackwood is President of Ralston College.