A companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages / edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., Philip Edward Phillips.

• Superior document: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 30
• TeilnehmendeR: Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr., 1946-; Phillips, Philip Edward.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 30.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (684 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The articles in this volume focus upon Boethius's extant works: his De arithmetica and a fragmentary De musica, his translations and commentaries on logic, his five theological texts, and, of course, his Consolation of Philosophy. They examine the effects that Boethian thought has exercised upon the learning of later generations of scholars--including, to a degree, scholars of the 21st century. The field of Boethian Studies has enjoyed a continuous history of works that treat either the entire Boethian tradition or major aspects of it. This volume offers a comprehensive study, and its construction is systematic, considering Boethius's works both as central to the disciplines that they represent and to the areas of scholarly interest that they influenced, and it is framed by articles on the historical contexts in which those works were produced. Contributors include: Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., Stephen McCluskey, Rosalind C. Love, Jean-Yves Guillaumin, Siobhan Nash-Marshall, John Casey, Paul E. Szarmach, Christine Hehle, Glynnis M. Cropp, Dario Bancato, Ian Johnson, Mark T. Rimple, Ann E. Moyer, Fabio Troncarelli, and Philip Edward Phillips.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: The Times, Life, and Work of Boethius / Noel Harold Kaylor -- Boethius’s Astronomy and Cosmology / Stephen C. McCluskey -- The Latin Commentaries on Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae from the 9th to the 11th Centuries / Rosalind C. Love -- Boethius’s De institutione arithmetica and its Influence on Posterity / Jean-Yves Guillaumin -- Boethius’s Influence on Theology and Metaphysics to c.1500 / Siobhan Nash-Marshall -- Boethius’s Works on Logic in the Middle Ages / John Patrick Casey -- Boethius’s Influence in Anglo-Saxon England: The Vernacular and the De consolatione philosophiae / Paul E. Szarmach -- Boethius’s Influence on German Literature to c.1500 / Christine Hehle -- Boethius in Medieval France: Translations of the De consolatione philosophiae and Literary Influence / Glynnis M. Cropp -- Readers and Interpreters of the Consolatio in Italy, 1300–1550 / Dario Brancato -- Making the Consolatio in Middle English / Ian Johnson -- The Enduring Legacy of Boethian Harmony / Mark T. Rimple -- The Quadrivium and the Decline of Boethian Influence / Ann E. Moyer -- Afterword: Boethius in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages / Fabio Troncarelli -- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: A Chronology and Selected Annotated Bibliography / Philip Edward Phillips -- Index of Manuscripts Cited -- Index.