Consolation in medieval narrative: Augustinian authority and open form

"This book is the first scholarship to map in detail the shape, origins, and rhetorical function of a narrative form authors in the medieval period learned from Augustine's two great histories: the personal Confessions and the political and ecclesiastical City of God. The form's simp...

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Main Author: Schrock, Chad D. 1978- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan 2015
In:Year: 2015
Edition:1. edition
Series/Journal:The new Middle Ages
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430 / Reception / Comfort (Motif) / Literature / Narrative technique / History 500-1500
Further subjects:B Confession in literature
B Augustine Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (-604?) Influence
B Literature, Medieval History and criticism
B Narration (Rhetoric)
B Christianity and literature
B Consolation in literature
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