| Description |
xxxii, 224 pages ; 24 cm. |
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| Series |
Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 525.
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| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
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. |
| Subject |
Boethius, -524 -- Influence.
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Boethius, -524. De consolatione philosophiae.
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Boethius, -524. |
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De consolatione philosophiae (Boethius) |
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English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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English poetry -- Middle English. |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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1100-1500 |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Added Author |
McMullen, A. Joseph, editor.
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Weaver, Erica, 1990- editor.
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| Added Title |
Faculty Publication.
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| Standard No. |
1050323273 |
| ISBN |
9780866985819 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0866985816 hardcover alkaline paper |
| UPC # |
15674872 |
| Standard No. |
(Coutts)042761156 |
| OCLC # |
1044768881 |
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