Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius (Chaucer Studies)

Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). D.S.Brewer, 1993. 203 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Size: 9.21 x 6.14 x .56. Books on Books::Literary Criticism Books on Books::Books on Authors 0331

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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.

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ISBN: 0859913686

ISBN-13: 9780859913683

Publisher: D.S.Brewer

Year: 1993

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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