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The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy (Hardcover)
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The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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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.
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