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Boethius, Ancius Manlius Severinus
Boethius, Ancius Manlius Severinus (
c.480–524) (
Anicius Manlius Severinus) Roman statesman and philosopher under Emperor Theodoric. He attempted to eliminate corruption, but was imprisoned on a charge of conspiracy. In prison at Pavia, where he was subsequently tortured and executed, he wrote
On the Consolation of Philosophy (523). Next to the Bible, this was medieval Europe's most influential book.
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The Poetry of Boethius.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy is read by many different...There is little accessible good work available on Boethius in English (a notable exception: H. Chadwick's Boethius: The Consolations of Music, Theology, and Philosophy...
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Literary anamnesis: Boethius remembers Ovid.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Helios; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Manlius Anicius Severinus Boethius composed the Consolatio philosophiae...at Pavia and awaiting execution. Boethius was a victim of the complex politics...and medievalists find the polymath Boethius of interest. (2) He was not a great...
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Boethius, Fortune's Prisoner.(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Small Press Bookwatch; 5/1/2008; 522 words
; Boethius, Fortune's Prisoner James Harpur...where neither were too much smiled upon, Boethius let his voice be heard for generations after, a millennium and a half later. "Boethius, Fortune's Prisoner: The Poems of...
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Nicole Guenther Discenza, The King's English: Strategies of Translation in the Old English 'Boethius'.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Strategies of Translation in the Old English 'Boethius' (New York: State University of New...Guenther Discenza's study of the Alfredian Boethius offers some welcome new perspectives...anticipated publication of the Alfredian Boethius Project material--and its limited...
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Romancing Ethics in Boethius, Chaucer, and Levinas: Fortune, Moral Luck, and Erotic Adventure
Magazine article from: Comparative Literature; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...routinely adapted for their own purposes from Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. The phenomenon...completed his English translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy at about...philosophical consolation provided by Boethius, questions remain about what exactly...
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The transmission of Boethius' de consolatione Philosophiae in the Carolingian age.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; The question of the transmission of Boethius' De consolatione Philosophiae (c...is perhaps easier to demonstrate that Boethius' prodmetrum reached England through...acquiesced that Bede did not know any of Boethius' works. (6) Nonetheless, this view...
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In search of happiness: felicitas and beatitudo in Early English Boethius translations.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...abstract level of expression. (1) Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae offers...abstract ideas. The earliest English Boethius translations dates from King Alfred...parts of the translations and in the Boethius versions of John Walton (1410) and...
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Alfred's Metres of Boethius.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...This new edition of the Metres of Boethius makes a welcome contribution to Alfredian...to include the relevant passages from Boethius' Latin original for the purposes of...accessible and useful edition of the Metres of Boethius; what is now needed is a new edition...
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Job, Boethius and Epic Truth.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...steadfastly rational Job and the imprisoned Boethius, the 'intertextual pairing' of these...thematic continuity on the grounds that Boethius and Job permitted imitation 'in any...Boethian lovers', a reading which uses Boethius' retelling of the myth of Orpheus and...
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Chaucer's 'Boece' and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Rendering the De consolatione Philosophiae of Boethius into English begins with the ninth...the translator at work: on his desk Boethius' text with the modern commentary at...moijuste. When the students of the French Boethius lay out their wares with the degree of...
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Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus ( b . Rome...philosophy . Very little is known of Boethius ’ life before his downfall...Pope Gregory the Great belonged. Manlius Boethius, consul for 487, may have been his father...
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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius The Roman logician and theologian Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (c. 480-c. 524) is best known for...writings. Born in Rome of an ancient family, Boethius probably received schooling in Athens or...
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Boethius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Boethius , Boetius , or Boece (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius), c.475-525, Roman philosopher and statesman...reign false charges of treason were brought against Boethius; after imprisonment in Pavia, he was sentenced without...
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Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus ( c. 480– c. 524...court at Ravenna . He was charged with treason and judicially murdered. Boethius made Latin translations of, and commentaries on, Aristotle's De Interpretatione...
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Boethius, Ancius Manlius Severinus
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Boethius, Ancius Manlius Severinus ( c. 480–524) ( Anicius Manlius Severinus ) Roman statesman and philosopher under Emperor...
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