The Erotics of Consolation

1. Introduction: Encountering Consolation
Catherine E. Léglu, Stephen J. Milner

Part I. Consolation and Desire

2. Touching Singularity: Consolation, Philosophy, and Poetry in the French Dit
Sarah Kay

3. The Doubled Joys of Troilus and Criseyde
Jessica Rosenfeld

4. The Consolation of Beatrice and Dante’s Dream of the Siren as Vilification Cure
Olivia Holmes

5. Yearning and Learning: Spaces of Desire in Jean Lemaire De Belges’ Concorde Des Deux Langages (1511)
Adrian Armstrong

6. Coming Together: Consolation and the Rhetoric of Insinuation in Boccaccio’s Decameron
Stephen J. Milner

Part II. Consolation and Loss

7. Stoic Psychotherapy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Petrarch’s De Remediis
Letizia A. Panizza

8. Tamainte Consolation / Me Fist Lymagination: A Poetics of Mourning and Imagination in Late Medieval Dits
Helen J. Swift

9. Horizons of Loss: Consolation and the Person in the Ackermann by Johannes von Tepl
Mark Chinca

10. Maternal Consolatio in Antoine de la Sale’s Le Réconfort de Madame de Fresne
Catherine E. Léglu

11. Boethius Goes to Court: the Consolatio as Advice to Princes from Chaucer to Elizabeth I
Deanne Williams

Keywords: Literature, Medieval Literature, Social History, Cultural History, History of Medieval Europe, Sexual Behavior, World History, Global and Transnational History