Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (587 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801429110 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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The scholarship is prodigious, the argument convincing, and the Christian stance congenial to the subject. Highly recommended."--Choice. "Though present-day critics, who concentrate on form, generally find the epic discontinuous in the Middle Ages, Astell argues that the genre persisted as the biblical book of Job and Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy were imitated and alluded to as examples throughout the period
Essential Reading Charles Ross This an essential book that neatly encapsulates the way Platonism and Stoicism were absorbed by Christianity in ways crucial to the formation and understanding of medieval and Renaissance literature. It is one of the most engaging lessons in philosophy and literature that you will ever read.