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Record Number:
7280
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Denny-Brown , Andrea.
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Title:
How Philosophy Matters: Death, Sex, Clothes, and Boethius [Lady Philosophy’s garment has an important symbolic significance, yet Boethius still depicts it as a material object. The materiality of Philosophy’s garment unsettles her supposed status as a purely immaterial abstraction. The corporeal status of her sexually-violated body and the gaps in her garment align her with the Muses of Poetry, negating a perception of Philosophy as pure, perfect, or whole. Her imperfect garment and female body thus symbolize human loss, corruption and mortality. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings. Edited by E. Jane Burns. Palgrave, 2004. Pages 177 - 191.
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Article Type:
Essay
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Allegory
Body in Literature
Boethius, Philosopher- De Consolatione Philosophiae
Classical Influences
Clothes in Literature
Death in Literature
Feminist Theory
Latin Literature
Literature- Prose
Literature- Verse
Muses in Literature
Personification
Philoso
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
Italy
Century:
6
Primary Evidence:
Illustrations:
One Figure. Figure One Manuscript illustration depicts Boethius seated at a ~~bed with Lady Philosophy standing beside him (MS Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Français 1098, fol 2v). Philosophy is depicted as a wealthy aristocratic~~woman wearing a luxurious dress and an elaborate headdress.
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Author's Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
2004.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
1403961867