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Featuring thirteen chapters by seasoned Boethian scholars, this collection explores the enduring influence and reinterpretation of the works of Boethius from late antiquity to the early modern period.

Drawing on rhetoric, manuscript studies, literary criticism, and intellectual history, the chapters trace the philosopher's evolving legacy through late antiquity, medieval scholasticism, vernacular devotional cultures, and early modern humanism. Contributors situate Boethius as a foundational figure whose works inspired wide-ranging intellectual, theological, and poetic adaptations. Four thematic sections collectively map how Boethian thought has been adopted, transformed, translated, contested, and reimagined by centuries of readers and interpreters.

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Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Boethius and Boethian Studies
Philip Edward Phillips (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)
Section I: Revisiting Boethius's Philosophical and Theological Texts
1. The Secret Doctrine of Boethius's De fide and Hebdomads
Fabio Troncarelli (University of Tuscany, Italy)
2. Boethius, Scholarship, and De Hebdomadibus's Axioms
Siobhan Nash-Marshall (Manhattanville College, USA)
3. The Boethian Topos of Mentorship: Mapping a Middle Term Between Rhetoric and Philosophy
Anthony G. Cirilla (College of the Ozarks, USA)
4. Logica mundi: Boethian Cosmology in the Old English Solomon and Saturn Dialogues
Christina Heckman (Augusta University, USA)
Section II: Scholasticism and the Intellectual Legacy of Boethius
5. Series rerum: The Use and Transformation of Boethian Thought in Bernardus Silvestris
Jason M. Baxter (Benedictine College, USA)
6. The Fortune of Boethius's Concept of Eternity in the Scholastic Debate (13th-15th Centuries)
Margherita Belli (University of Cassino, Italy)
7. Imagining the University: Boethian Translatio Studii in De disciplina scolarium
Brooke Hunter (Vilanova University, USA)
Section III: Chaucer, Commentary, and Vernacular Transformations
8. Boethius and Chaucer: The Consolations of “Trouthe”
Megan E. Murton (Catholic University of America, USA)
9. A Neglected Witness of Chaucer's Boece in a Medieval Devotional Commentary on Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae
Elisabeth Dutton (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
10. “Finding a Wise Meene”: Framing Wisdom's Fragments in The Boke of Coumfort of Bois
Melinda Nielsen (Baylor University, USA)
Section IV: Early Modern Afterlives and Religious Reinterpretations
11. Valentin Weigel and Boethius: Mystical-Philosophical Concepts in Late Sixteenth-Century Protestant Thinking
Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona, USA)
12. The Philosopher's Vision: Experiencing Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae in Henry Vaughan's Silex Scintillans and Thalia Rediviva
Jonathan Nauman (Henry Vaughan Society)
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published May 13 2027
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 304
ISBN 9798216484844
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 4 b/w illus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Philip Edward Phillips

Anthology Editor

Kenneth C. Hawley

Anthology Editor

Anthony G. Cirilla

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