The transmission of Boethius' de consolatione Philosophiae in the Carolingian age.(Critical essay)

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The question of the transmission of Boethius' De consolatione Philosophiae (c.524) has given rise to more than one fascinating--but not always irrefutable--theory. There is nonetheless something of a consensus among Boethian scholars, who regard Alcuin (735-804) as the providential figure who rescued the famous prosimetrum from oblivion, and brought it to the attention of the Carolingian world. (1) According to this hypothesis, Alcuin discovered in Italy one rare sixth-century codex of the Consolatio, which he then brought to France. Copies were then made and circulated from ...

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