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Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm

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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 where Neoplatonic 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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  • Title

    Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius

  • Author

    A. J. Minnis

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Boydell & Brewer

  • Published

    July 1993

  • Weight

    482g

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780859913683

  • ISBN-10

    0859913686

  • Eden Code

    4733105

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