Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius

Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 9780859913683
ISBN-13 : 0859913686
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Download or read book Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius written by Alastair J. Minnis and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1993 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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