The Erotics of Consolation: Desire and Distance in the Late Middle Ages

The New Middle Ages

by Catherine E. Léglu (Editor)

Touching Consolation, Philosophy and Poetry in the French Dits; Sarah Kay The Doubled Joys of Troilus and Criseyde; Jessica Rosenfeld The Consolation of Beatrice and Dantes Dream of the Siren as Vilification Cure; Olivia Holmes Yearning and Spaces of Desire in Jean Lemaire de Belges Concorde des Deux Langages (1511); Adrian Armstrong Coming Consolation and the Rhetoric of Insinuation in Boccaccios Decameron; Stephen J. Milner Stoic Psychotherapy in the Middle Ages and Petrarchs De Remediis; Letizia A. Panizza Tamainte Consolacion Me Fist A Poetics of Mourning and Imagination in Late-Medieval Dits; Helen J. Swift Horizons of Consolation and the Person in the Ackermann by Johannes von Tepl; Mark Chinca Maternal Consolatio in Antoine de La Sales Le Réconfort de Madame de Fresne; Catherine E. Léglu Boethius Goes to The Consolation as Advice to Princes in the Poetry of Chaucer and Elizabeth I; Deanne Williams

252 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2008

About the author

I am a medievalist specialising in Occitan and French literature, and currently Director of the University of Reading's Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies.

I am on the international committee of the 'Association internationale d'éudes occitanes' (AIEO)

I am a specialist in medieval French and Occitan literature. My PhD was in the satirical tradition of troubadour poetry. I have published on Old Occitan satirical and moralising verse, Old French lyric poetry (pastourelle and chansons de toile), and Middle French romance and didactic texts. My recent research has been on issues of mulitilingualism in French, Occitan and Catalan literature, as well as on the vernacular translation and adaptation of Latin didactic texts (e.g. Middle French versions of Valerius Maximus' Facta et dicta memorabilia). My current project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2011-13) is an edition of the Occitan version of a fourteenth-century universal history told largely through the medium of genealogies and images (British Library Egerton 1500), find out more by visiting the egerton 1500 blog

I also teach modern French Language, French for Managers, French cinema, and the cinematic adaptations of literary texts.