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Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (
c.480–524 AD) Roman statesman and philosopher. He is best known for
The Consolation of Philosophy, a work written in a mixture of prose and verse while he was in prison for treason. In this he argued that the soul can attain happiness in affliction by realizing the value of goodness and meditating on the reality of God. While drawing upon Stoicism and Neoplatonism, his work echoed Christian sentiments and exercised considerable influence throughout the Middle Ages.
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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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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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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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Mistranslation of classica saeva in the Old English Boethius.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Great's Old English translation of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae (both...noticed how freely Alfred translated Boethius's work; so infrequently does Alfred...successful at grafting his views onto Boethius, he can be acquitted of the charge of...
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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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Confessions and Tyrants: The Prison Testimonies of Boethius, Thomas More and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...briefly recounts the circumstances in which Boethius, More, and Bonhoeffer died--Boethius in the sixth century on order of the Roman...Chapters 2 through 4 explore the "testimony" of Boethius, More, and Bonhoeffer. These chapters contain...
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The Consolation of Queen Elizabeth I; the queen's translation of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae; Public Record Office, Manuscript SP 12/289.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2009; 593 words
; ...Elizabeth I; the queen's translation of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae; Public Record Office, Manuscript SP 12/289. Boethius. Ed. by Noel Harold Kaylor and Philip...translate the Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius. This edition of that work has been...
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Re-fashioning Boethius: prose and poetry in Chartier's Livre de l'Esperance.(Alain Chartier)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...one can only speculate). Many medieval French reworkings of Boethius--including translations of the Consolation as well as adaptations...he was about to write down his opening elegiac lament that Boethius was visited by the personification of Philosophy. The implication...
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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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