{"product_id":"the-consolation-of-boethius-as-poetic-liturgy-9780198718314","title":"The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Stephen Blackwood\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Christian Theology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, literature was read with the ear as much as with the eye: silent reading was the exception; audible reading, the norm. This highly original book shows that Boethius's \u003cem\u003eConsolation of Philosophy--\u003c\/em\u003eone of the most widely-read texts in Western history--aims to affect the listener through the designs of its rhythmic sound. Stephen Blackwood argues that the \u003cem\u003eConsolation's\u003c\/em\u003e metres are arranged in patterns that have a therapeutic and liturgical purpose: as a bodily mediation of the text's consolation, these rhythmic patterns enable the listener to discern the eternal in the motion of time. \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e Consolation \u003cem\u003eof Boethius as Poetic Liturgy\u003c\/em\u003e vividly explores how in this acoustic encounter with the text philosophy becomes a lived reality, and reading a kind of prayer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47890497175703,"sku":"9780198718314","price":19627.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198718314.webp?v=1781180254","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-consolation-of-boethius-as-poetic-liturgy-9780198718314","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}