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.
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.
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