Brooke Hunter

Forging Boethius in Medieval Intellectual Fantasies

Sprachen: Englisch. 23,5 cm / 15,7 cm / 1,6 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9781138353367
248,10 €
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208 Seiten
Oktober 2018
Routledge

Forging Boethius reconsiders the influence of the thirteenth-century Pseudo-Boethian forgery De disciplina scolarium on medieval understandings of Boethius, using a a variety of different works including texts of translatio studii et imperii, the poetry of Chaucer, and humanist writings.

Brooke Hunter is Assistant Professor of English at Villanova University, USA.

Introduction: De disciplina scolarium and the Boethian Corpus Chapter One: Reproduction and Philosophical Life in the Consolatio Philosophiae Chapter Two: De disciplina and Translatio Studii Chapter Three: Boethian Humor Chapter Four: 'Bitwixen game and ernest': Contrary Boethianism in Troilus and Criseyde Chapter Five: Boethius and the Humanists: Valla, Badius, and Persistence of De disciplina in Print References Index