Research Catalog

Title

The legacy of Boethius in medieval England : the consolation and its afterlives / edited by A. Joseph McMullen and Erica Weaver.

Publication

• Tempe, Arizona : ACMRS, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• McMullen, A. Joseph
• Weaver, Erica, 1990-

Description

xxxii, 224 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies ; volume 525

Uniform Title

Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 525.

Subjects

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• English poetry > Middle English
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• 1100-1500
• De consolatione philosophiae (Boethius)
• English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
• Boethius, -524 > De consolatione philosophiae
• Boethius, -524 > Influence

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Reading Boethius in medieval England: the consolation of philosophy from Alfred to Ashby / Erica Weaver and A. Joseph McMullen -- The Protean form of the Old English Boethius / Susan Irvine -- Knowledge and rebellion in the old English Boethius / Nicole Guenther Discenza -- The old English Boethius and speculative thought / Paul E. Szarmach -- Purgatoria clementia: philosophy and principles of pain in the old English Boethius / Haruko Momma -- An ethical history for the self: the liberius exemplum in the Old English Boethius / Hilary Fox -- Finding consolation at the end of the millennium / Erica Weaver -- Consolations of friendship: the Augustinian reception of Boethius in twelfth-century England / Ann W. Astell -- Sensible prose and the sense of meter: Boethian prosimetrics and the fourteenth century / Eleanor Johnson -- Nature, astronomy, and cosmology in Chaucer's Boece / A. Joseph McMullen -- Tragic diction in Chaucer's Boece, the Canterbury Tales, and Hoccleve's Series / Jonathan Stavsky -- The potages of foryetfulness: Thomas Usk, Lady Love, and the Boethian rhetoric of personification / Anthony G. Cirilla -- Translation for sentence in middle English Poetry: the case of John Walton / Taylor Cowdery.

Call Number

JFE 18-7318

ISBN

• 9780866985819
• 0866985816

LCCN

2018023350

OCLC

1044768881

Title

The legacy of Boethius in medieval England : the consolation and its afterlives / edited by A. Joseph McMullen and Erica Weaver.

Publisher

Tempe, Arizona : ACMRS, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies ; volume 525

Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 525.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1100-1500

Added Author

McMullen, A. Joseph, editor.

Weaver, Erica, 1990- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-7318