Author: BoethiusPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
King Alfred's Old English Version of Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiae
Author: BoethiusThe Old English Boethius
Author: BoethiusPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, written in Latin around 525 A.D., was to become one of the most influential literary texts of the Middle Ages. The Old English prose translation and adaptation which was produced around 900 and claims to be by King Alfred was one of the earliest signs of its importance and use, and the subsequent rewriting of parts as verse show an interest in rivalling the literary shape of the Latin original. The many changes and additions have much to tell us about Anglo-Saxon interests and scholarship in the Alfredian period. This new edition is the first to present the second prose-and-verse version of the Old English text, and allows it to be read alongside the original prose version, for which this is the first edition for over a century, and the introduction and commentary reveal much about the history of the text and its composition. The edition contains critical texts of both versions; a translation; a full introduction examining the manuscripts, the composition of the prose text and of the subsequent verse, the language, the authorship and date of the two versions, the relationship to other texts of the period and later uses of it, and the nature and purpose of the work; a detailed commentary exploring the relationship to the Latin text and to the early medieval commentary tradition; textual notes; and a glossary.
King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiae
Author: BoethiusBoethius de consolatione philosophiae
Author: Anicius Manlius Severinus BoethiusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiae
Author: Alfred (King of England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consolation
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
King Alfred's Old English Version of Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiae
Author: BoethiusPublisher:
ISBN: 9780526695669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ:
Author: BoethiusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Didactic poetry, English (Old)
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of the Metres of Boethius
Author: BoethiusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Didactic poetry, English (Old)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
King Alfred's Old English version of Boethius De consolatione philosophiae
Author: Alfred (King of England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Didactic poetry, English (Old)
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiae
Author: Anicius Manlius Severinus BoethiusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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