Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius
Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius

Author: Alastair J. Minnis

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0859913686

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Chaucer's translation of Boethius' work is related to medieval intellectual culture, with attention to Trevet's Boethius commentary. This collection seeks to locate the Boece within the medievaltradition of the academic study and translation of the Consolatiophilosophiae, thereby relating the work to the intellectual culturewhich made it possible.It begins with the fullest study yet undertakenof the Boethius commentary of Nicholas Trevet, this being a majorsource of the Boece. There follow editions and translationsof the major passages in Trevet's commentary whereNeoplatonic issuesare confronted, then Chaucer's debt to Trevet is assessed in a detailedreview. The many choices which faced Chaucer as a translator are indicated and the Boeceis placed in a long line of interpreters of Boethius in which both Latin commentators and vernacular translators played their parts. Finally, a view is offered of the Boece as anexample of late-medieval `academic translation': if the Boeceis assigned to this genre, it may be judged a considerable success.

Boethius in the Middle Ages
Boethius in the Middle Ages

Author: Maarten J. F. M. Hoenen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9789004108318

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The German philosophical culture of the Middle Ages is inextricable linked to the thought of Albert the Great. This volume brings together 14 papers, which deal with Albert's influence from the points of view of mysticism, philosophy, and the history of universities.

A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages
A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages

Author: Noel Harold Kaylor

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-05-03

Total Pages: 685

ISBN-13: 900418354X

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The articles in this volume focus upon Boethius's extant works: his De arithmetica and a fragmentary De musica, his translations and commentaries on logic, his five theological texts, and, of course, his Consolation of Philosophy. They examine the effects that Boethian thought has exercised upon the learning of later generations of scholars.

Boethius in the Middle Ages
Boethius in the Middle Ages

Author: Maarten Hoenen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-01

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 9004452125

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Boethius' Consolatio Philosophiae is one of those exceptional works that circulated widely throughout such diverse medieval cultures as the schools and universities, the court, and religious houses. It spawned a rich tradition of Latin commentaries and was a major force in shaping vernacular literary traditions, including the works of Jean de Meun, Dante, and Chaucer. The changing perceptions of the Consolatio are the subject of this collection of new essays. The first section is devoted to the Latin commentary tradition (William of Conches, Nicholas Trevet, and Pierre d'Ailly). The other sections explore the vernacular traditions (Italian, French, German, English, and Dutch). The book underlines the interactions between the Latin and the vernacular and between literary and scholastic contexts, and the focus throughout is on the intellectual and institutional background of the works discussed.

The Legacy of Boethius in Medieval England
The Legacy of Boethius in Medieval England

Author: A. Joseph McMullen

Publisher: Acmrs Publications

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780866985819

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"The first holistic survey of the reworkings of the 'Consolation' in medieval England, surveying the Old English 'Boethius' together with Chaucer's 'Boece' and a host of understudied interlocutors"--

The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages
The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages

Author: Stephen Gersh

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-02-06

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 3110908492

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This collection of essays delineates the history of the rather disparate intellectual tradition usually labeled as "Platonic" or "Neoplatonic". In chronological order, the book covers the most eminent philosophic schools of thought within that tradition. The most important terms of the Platonic tradition are studied together with a discussion of their semantic implications, the philosophical and theological claims associated with the terms, the sources that furnish the terms, and the intellectual traditions aligned with or opposed to them. The contributors thereby provide a vivid intellectual map of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Contributions are written in English or German.

Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages
Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages

Author: Rita Copeland

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-03-16

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780521483650

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This book has a twofold purpose. First, it seeks to define the place of vernacular translation within the systems of rhetoric and hermeneutics in the Middle Ages. Secondly, it examines the way that rhetoric and hermeneutics in the Middle Ages define their status in relation to each other as critical practices. --introd.

Chaucer’s Translation of Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy
Chaucer’s Translation of Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-07-24

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9004546308

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This edition offers you the first Modern English version of Chaucer’s only previously untranslated major work, Boece. Boece is Chaucer’s Middle English translation of the 6th-century CE philosopher Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy. For over a thousand years, The Consolation underpinned Christian understanding of Fate, Fortune, Free Will, and Divine Providence, and its ideas influenced Chaucer’s major works. While many editions offer a Modern English translation from the original Latin, this edition gives you an approachable version of Chaucer’s translation and puts you face-to-face with his phrasings and emendations. Here, the father of English poetry’s voice finally speaks up, so you can enjoy his poetic turns and even track where the language from Boece echoes in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.

Anchoritism in the Middle Ages
Anchoritism in the Middle Ages

Author: Catherine Innes-Parker

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2013-04-30

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 178316039X

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This volume explores medieval anchoritism (the life of a solitary religious recluse) from a variety of perspectives. The individual essays conceive anchoritism in broadly interpretive categories: challenging perceived notions of the very concept of anchoritic ‘rule’ and guidance; studying the interaction between language and linguistic forms; addressing the connection between anchoritism and other forms of solitude (particularly in European tales of sanctity); and exploring the influence of anchoritic literature on lay devotion. As a whole, the volume illuminates the richness and fluidity of anchoritic texts and contexts and shows how anchoritism pervaded the spirituality of the Middle Ages, for lay and religious alike. It moves through both space and time, ranging from the third century to the sixteenth, from England to the Continent and back.

Geoffrey Chaucer in Context
Geoffrey Chaucer in Context

Author: Ian Johnson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 499

ISBN-13: 1107035643

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Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.