edited by A. Joseph McMullen and Erica Weaver
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018
Paper: 978-0-86698-581-9
Library of Congress Classification PA6231.C8L44 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 189

ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The study of Boethius’s medieval reception has enjoyed a resurgence of interest in recent years, with the publication of new editions, translations, databases, and research reshaping our understanding of his profound influence. This study offers the first holistic survey of the reworkings of the Consolation in medieval England, surveying the Old English Boethius together with Chaucer’s Boece and a host of understudied interlocutors for the first time in a volume of this kind. Arranged into sections on “earlier” and “later” periods, The Legacy of Boethius argues for a reassessment of the medieval English Boethian tradition as a 600-year continuum in vernacular reading and readership.