Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius

Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 9780859913683
ISBN-13 : 0859913686
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Synopsis Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius by : Alastair J. Minnis

Chaucer's translation of Boethius' work is related to medieval intellectual culture, with attention to Trevet's Boethius commentary. This collection seeks to locate the Boece within the medievaltradition of the academic study and translation of the Consolatiophilosophiae, thereby relating the work to the intellectual culturewhich made it possible.It begins with the fullest study yet undertakenof the Boethius commentary of Nicholas Trevet, this being a majorsource of the Boece. There follow editions and translationsof the major passages in Trevet's commentary whereNeoplatonic issuesare confronted, then Chaucer's debt to Trevet is assessed in a detailedreview. The many choices which faced Chaucer as a translator are indicated and the Boeceis placed in a long line of interpreters of Boethius in which both Latin commentators and vernacular translators played their parts. Finally, a view is offered of the Boece as anexample of late-medieval `academic translation': if the Boeceis assigned to this genre, it may be judged a considerable success.

Chaucer's Boece

Chaucer's Boece
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Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105122459303
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Synopsis Chaucer's Boece by : Boethius

De nuptiis

De nuptiis
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 0820319201
ISBN-13 : 9780820319209
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Synopsis De nuptiis by : Ralph Hanna

The three medieval texts that make up Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves have formed a vital part of Chaucerian research for more than half a century. Integrated here for the first time, these texts now form a cornerstone volume of the Chaucer Library series. Near the end of her prologue, Chaucer's Wife of Bath tells how her fifth husband, Jankyn, a clerk of Oxford, taunted her by reading from a collection of antifeminist tracts. The contents of Jankyn's book include three texts that enjoyed wide distribution in the later Middle Ages: Walter Map's "Dissuasio Valerii," Theophrastus's "De Nuptiis," and Jerome's "Adversus Jovinianum." The first two are reproduced in their entirety in this volume, with selections from the third. The editors examine Jankyn's book from many angles, including the extensive manuscript sources from which it may be reconstructed, background information for its literary appreciation, and Chaucer's use of the materials. The publication of this volume, the fourth in the Chaucer Library, represents a major event for medievalists.

Chaucer’s Translation of Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy

Chaucer’s Translation of Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 9789004546301
ISBN-13 : 9004546308
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Synopsis Chaucer’s Translation of Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy by :

This edition offers you the first Modern English version of Chaucer’s only previously untranslated major work, Boece. Boece is Chaucer’s Middle English translation of the 6th-century CE philosopher Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy. For over a thousand years, The Consolation underpinned Christian understanding of Fate, Fortune, Free Will, and Divine Providence, and its ideas influenced Chaucer’s major works. While many editions offer a Modern English translation from the original Latin, this edition gives you an approachable version of Chaucer’s translation and puts you face-to-face with his phrasings and emendations. Here, the father of English poetry’s voice finally speaks up, so you can enjoy his poetic turns and even track where the language from Boece echoes in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.

Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages

Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 0521483654
ISBN-13 : 9780521483650
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages by : Rita Copeland

This book has a twofold purpose. First, it seeks to define the place of vernacular translation within the systems of rhetoric and hermeneutics in the Middle Ages. Secondly, it examines the way that rhetoric and hermeneutics in the Middle Ages define their status in relation to each other as critical practices. --introd.

The Riverside Chaucer

The Riverside Chaucer
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Publisher : American Chemical Society
Total Pages : 1386
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ISBN-10 : 9780199552092
ISBN-13 : 0199552096
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Synopsis The Riverside Chaucer by : Geoffrey Chaucer

A re-editing of F.N. Robinson's second edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1957 by the team of experts at the Riverside Institute who have greatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography and glossary. The result of many years' study. The Riverside Chaucer is the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer's complete works.

Chaucer

Chaucer
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9780271048116
ISBN-13 : 0271048115
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Chaucer by : David B. Raybin

"Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings"--Provided by publisher.

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer
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Total Pages : 327
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ISBN-10 : 9780198842675
ISBN-13 : 0198842678
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Tolkien's Lost Chaucer by : John M. Bowers

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. It reveals how major episodes from the trilogy were inspired by Tolkien's editing and teaching of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.