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Remaking Boethius

Author : Boethius
Publisher : Medieval and Renaissance Texts
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0866985603

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Remaking Boethius by Boethius Pdf

Provides a comprehensive inventory of all English translations of the 'Consolatio' of Boethius and supplies basic information on the salient features that interested readers will need in initial phases of research on the large and complex English translation tradition. This volume is a reference work, organized chronologically in its sections, with a separate entry for each translator's work. The sections are defined by the type of translations they comprise, whether complete, partial, meters only, etc. The plan of the book is encyclopedic in nature: some biographical material is provided for each translator; the translations are described briefly, as are their linguistic peculiarities, their implied audiences, their links with other translations, and their general reception. Sample passages from the translations are provided, and where possible these are two of the most well-known moments in the 'Consolatio': the appearance of Lady Philosophy, narrated by the Prisoner, and the cosmological hymn to the 'Deus' of the work, sung by Lady Philosophy.

The Fables of Ulrich Bonerius (ca. 1350)

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527561014

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The Fables of Ulrich Bonerius (ca. 1350) by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Serendipitously, at around the same time as Boccaccio published his famous Decameron (1350), the Swiss-German Dominican Ulrich Bonerius published his highly popular collection of fables, The Gemstone. Both authors pursued very similar goals, instructing their audiences about vices and virtues, Boccaccio by telling entertaining, often erotic tales, Bonerius by relating didactic tales, mostly based on animals as the active characters. This book provides the first English translation of all one hundred fables authored by Bonerius. Bonerius drew mostly from the classical Aesopian tradition, and his Gemstone in turn became the crucial source for vast fable collections in the late Middle Ages, and again in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In fact, the famous Grimm brothers included some of his narratives in their fairy tale collection of The Gemstone 1812. Not only was Bonerius an excellent poet, he also understood the depth of human nature exceedingly well, warning about many of people’s shortcomings and failures.

Medievalia Et Humanistica, No. 47

Author : Reinhold F. Glei,Maik Goth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538157916

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Medievalia Et Humanistica, No. 47 by Reinhold F. Glei,Maik Goth Pdf

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy. Volume 47 showcases a variety of transnational and translingual perspectives, analyzing the works of humanist authors from across Europe, and how language can affect the interpretation of the literature. It expands beyond the Eurocentric appraisal of medieval works and takes into consideration a broader response.

Rewriting Texts Remaking Images

Author : Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons,Corrado Federici,Ernesto Virgulti
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Intertextuality
ISBN : 1433109719

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Rewriting Texts Remaking Images by Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons,Corrado Federici,Ernesto Virgulti Pdf

The twenty-four essays in Rewriting Texts Remaking Images: Interdisciplinary Perspectives examine the complex relationships between original creative works and subsequent versions of these originals, from both theoretical and pragmatic perspectives. The process involves the rereading, reinterpretation, and rediscovery of literary texts, paintings, photographs, and films, as well as the consideration of issues pertaining to adaptation, intertextuality, transcodification, ekphrasis, parody, translation, and revision. The interdisciplinary analyses consider works from classical antiquity to the present day, in a number of literatures, and include such topics as the reuse and resemantization of photographs and iconic images.

Boethius

Author : Helen M. Barrett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107415768

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Boethius by Helen M. Barrett Pdf

Originally published in 1940, this book contains a succinct introduction to Boethius, the influential medieval philosopher who was writing during the final days of the Western Roman Empire. Barrett keeps the general reader in mind as she explains Boethius' philosophy and his role in keeping Greek thinking available to his fellow Romans even as they were being conquered by the Ostrogoths. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ancient thought and in Late Antique philosophy.

Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages

Author : Ardis Butterfield,Ian Johnson,Andrew Kraebel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108619493

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Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages by Ardis Butterfield,Ian Johnson,Andrew Kraebel Pdf

This collection makes a new, profound and far-reaching intervention into the rich yet little-explored terrain between Latin scholastic theory and vernacular literature. Written by a multidisciplinary team of leading international authors, the chapters honour and advance Alastair Minnis's field-defining scholarship. A wealth of expert essays refract the nuances of theory through the medium of authoritative Latin and vernacular medieval texts, providing fresh interpretative treatment to known canonical works while also bringing unknown materials to light.

A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages

Author : Noel Harold Kaylor,Philip Edward Phillips
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004183544

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A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages by Noel Harold Kaylor,Philip Edward Phillips Pdf

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.

Forging Boethius in Medieval Intellectual Fantasies

Author : Brooke Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429763274

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Forging Boethius in Medieval Intellectual Fantasies by Brooke Hunter Pdf

Forging Boethius in Medieval Intellectual Fantasies reconsiders the influence of the thirteenth-century Pseudo-Boethian forgery De disciplina scolarium on medieval understandings of Boethius (d. 524). Tracing the medieval popularity of De disciplina’s reimagined vision of Boethius alongside the current scholarly neglect of this forged Boethian persona offers insight into how medieval schoolmen saw themselves and the past, and how modern scholars imagine the medieval past. In exploring this alternate Boethian persona through a variety of different works including texts of translatio studii et imperii, common school texts, the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, and humanist writings, this book reveals a new vein of medieval Boethianism that is earthy, practical, and even humorous. Forging Boethius is an essential reference book for students and researchers in the fields of medieval literature and philosophy, as well as for anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of one the most significant authors of the Middle Ages.

Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110731798

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Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Contrary to common assumptions, medieval and early modern writers and poets often addressed the high value of freedom, whether we think of such fable authors as Marie de France or Ulrich Bonerius. Similarly, medieval history knows of numerous struggles by various peoples to maintain their own freedom or political independence. Nevertheless, as this study illustrates, throughout the pre-modern period, the loss of freedom could happen quite easily, affecting high and low (including kings and princes) and there are many literary texts and historical documents that address the problems of imprisonment and even enslavement (Georgius of Hungary, Johann Schiltberger, Hans Ulrich Krafft, etc.). Simultaneously, philosophers and theologians discussed intensively the fundamental question regarding free will (e.g., Augustine) and political freedom (e.g., John of Salisbury). Moreover, quite a large number of major pre-modern poets spent a long time in prison where they composed some of their major works (Boethius, Marco Polo, Charles d'Orléans, Thomas Malory, etc.). This book brings to light a vast range of relevant sources that confirm the existence of this fundamental and impactful discourse on freedom, imprisonment, and enslavement.

Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages

Author : Eleanor Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226527451

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Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages by Eleanor Johnson Pdf

Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work’s sociopolitical heft and meaning. In Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages, Eleanor Johnson reveals that aesthetics—the formal aspects of literary language that make it sense-perceptible—are indeed inextricable from ethics in the writing of medieval literature. Johnson brings a keen formalist eye to bear on the prosimetric form: the mixing of prose with lyrical poetry. This form descends from the writings of the sixth-century Christian philosopher Boethius—specifically his famous prison text, Consolation of Philosophy—to the late medieval English tradition. Johnson argues that Boethius’s text had a broad influence not simply on the thematic and philosophical content of subsequent literary writing, but also on the specific aesthetic construction of several vernacular traditions. She demonstrates the underlying prosimetric structures in a variety of Middle English texts—including Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and portions of the Canterbury Tales, Thomas Usk’s Testament of Love, John Gower’s Confessio amantis, and Thomas Hoccleve’s autobiographical poetry—and asks how particular formal choices work, how they resonate with medieval literary-theoretical ideas, and how particular poems and prose works mediate the tricky business of modeling ethical transformation for a readership.

Boethius

Author : John Marenbon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198030649

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Boethius by John Marenbon Pdf

This book offers a brief, accessible introduction to the thought of Boethius. After a survey of Boethius's life and work, Marenbon explicates his theological method, and devotes separate chapters to his arguments about good and evil, fortune, fate and free will, and the problem of divine foreknowledge. Marenbon also traces Boethius's influence on the work of such thinkers as Aquinas and Duns Scotus.

The Cambridge Companion to Boethius

Author : John Marenbon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521872669

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The Cambridge Companion to Boethius by John Marenbon Pdf

Covers all the important aspects of Boethius's thought and his influence on poets as well as philosophers and theologians.

King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of Boethius De consolatione philosophiae

Author : Boethius
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780244331382

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King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of Boethius De consolatione philosophiae by Boethius Pdf

The Old English Boethius is an Old English translation / adaptation of the sixth-century Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, dating from between c. 880 and 950. Boethius's work is prosimetrical, alternating between prose and verse, and one of the two surviving manuscripts of the Old English translation renders the poems as Old English alliterative verse: these verse translations are known as the Metres of Boethius. NOTE: While Introduction and notes are in modern English, and a glossary is also included, the book does not contain a translation into modern English of the text of Consolation of Philosophy.

The Old English Boethius

Author : Boethius
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674055582

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The Old English Boethius by Boethius Pdf

King Alfred's circle of scholars boldly refashioned Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy from Latin into Old English, bringing it to a vernacular audience for the first time. Verse prologues and epilogues associated with the court of Alfred fill out this new edition, translated from Old English by Susan Irvine and Malcolm R. Godden.

Boethius: On Aristotle On Interpretation 1-3

Author : Boethius,
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472500328

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Boethius: On Aristotle On Interpretation 1-3 by Boethius, Pdf

Boethius (c.480-c.525) wrote his highly influential second commentary on Aristotle's On Interpretation in Latin, but using the style of the Greek commentaries on Aristotle. It was part of his project to bring knowledge of Plato and Aristotle to the Latin-speaking world of his fellow Christians. The project was cruelly interrupted by his execution at the age of about 45, leaving the Latin world under-informed about Greek Philosophy for 700 years. Boethius reveals to us how On Interpretation was understood not only by himself, but also by some of the best Greek interpreters, especially Alexander and Porphyry. Alexander had insisted that its subject was composite thoughts, not composite sentences nor composite things - it is thoughts that are primarily true or false. Although Aristotle's first six chapters define name, verb, sentence, statement, affirmation and negation, Porphyry had claimed that Aristotelians believe in three types of name and verb, written, spoken and mental, in other words a language of the mind. Boethius discusses individuality and ascribes to Aristotle a view that each individual is distinguished by having a composite quality that is not merely unshared, but unshareable. Boethius also discusses why we can still say that the dead Homer is a poet, despite having forbidden us to say that the dead Socrates is either sick or well. But Boethius' most famous contribution is his interpretation of Aristotle's discussion of the threat of that tomorrow's events, for example a sea battle, will have been irrevocable 10,000 years ago, if it was true 10,000 years ago that there would be a sea battle on that day. In Boethius' later Consolation of Philosophy, written in prison awaiting execution, he offered a seminal conception of eternity to solve the related problem of future events being irrevocable because of God's foreknowledge of them. Boethius' influential commentary was part of his ideal of bringing Plato and Aristotle to the Latin-speaking world. Throughout the Latin Middle Ages, it remained the standard introduction to On Interpretation. This volume contains the first English translation of Boethius' commentary, as well as a detailed introduction, notes and bibliography.