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Textual Communities, Textual Selves: Essays in Dialogue with Brian Stock
, Brepols -PIMS, 2024 Hardback, xii + 272 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Illustrations:9 col., Language: English. ISBN 9780888448378.
Summary The essays in this volume investigate ways that textual practices in the classical and medieval periods generated collective and individual expressions of identity. Engaging in dialogue with Brian Stock's seminal contributions to the history of literacy, especially Augustine the Reader, The Implications of Literacy, and Myth and Science in the Twelfth Century, the essays initiate new conversations about models of interpretation, habits of reading, textual communities, and forms of self-writing. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Plates Abbreviations Acknowledgements Sarah Powrie and Gur Zak Introduction Aviad Kleinberg A Life of Brian Seth Lerer The Textualized Augustine and Late Antique Communities Paul Saenger Augustine as Reader: Prospects for Collaboration between Palaeography and the Neurosciences Sarah Spence Augustine, Virgil, and the Landscape of Memory John Magee Boethius and the Legacy of Alexander of Aphrodisias: The Elementary Commentary on De interpretatione 10, 19b22-24, and Related Texts Constant J. Mews Rereading The Twelve Abuses of the Age: From Seventh-Century Ireland to Twelfth-Century France Marcia l. Colish Self-Baptism in the Middle Ages? Willemien Otten Nature's Mediation: William of Conches and Hildegard of Bingen on Creation and the Cosmos Sarah Powrie Allegories of the Formless Self in Augustine's Confessions and Bernardus Silvestris's Cosmographia Gur Zak After Petrarch: Writing and Self-Care in Giovanni Conversini's Rationarium vite Jane Tylus Listening for the Ending Catherine Conybeare Augustine and Wittgenstein: The Inner Dialogue Continued Natalie Zemon Davis A Scholarly Friendship: In Tribute to Brian Stock Publications of Brian Stock Contributors Index
Boccaccio and the Consolation of Literature
, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, approx. x + 216 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9780888442291.
Summary The reader of Boccaccio's voluminous writings, from the early Filocolo through the Decameron and to the later Epistles, cannot help but marvel at the pervasive engagement with the power and reach of consolation. Time and again, his protagonists suffer heartache and tribulation and seek comfort in the words of others or, significantly, in the reading of literature. These scenes are accompanied, tellingly, by the author's own declarations for the care and solace of his readers. Although scholars have long recognized its importance, this wide-ranging and multifaceted exploration of the consolatory value of literature has not received the attention it deserves. Boccaccio and the Consolation of Literature is the first sustained study of Boccaccio's consoling fictions as well as his reflections on the way literature can, and should, offer solace. Across five interlocking chapters, the book analyzes the affective, exemplary, and cognitive modes of consolation that mark the poet's works; but it also underlines the critical dialogue with the ancient and medieval traditions Boccaccio inherits. While his narratives introduce figures and tropes that expound Stoic, Boethian, and Dantesque views of consolation - calling to overcome sorrow through curbing the passions that lead to grief - Boccaccio repeatedly dramatizes the limits of these traditions. In laying bare these limits and inviting readers instead to find comfort in shared sorrow or in the active pursuit of worldly desires Boccaccio fashions a new vision of consolatio for the later Middle Ages.
