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Author | : John Marenbon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2009-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521872669 |
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Covers all the important aspects of Boethius's thought and his influence on poets as well as philosophers and theologians.
Author | : John Marenbon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2009-05-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139828150 |
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Boethius (c.480–c.525/6), though a Christian, worked in the tradition of the Neoplatonic schools, with their strong interest in Aristotelian logic and Platonic metaphysics. He is best known for his Consolation of Philosophy, which he wrote in prison awaiting execution. His works also include a long series of logical translations, commentaries and monographs and some short but densely-argued theological treatises, all of which were enormously influential on medieval thought. But Boethius was more than a writer who passed on important ancient ideas to the Middle Ages. The essays here by leading specialists, which cover all the main aspects of his writing and its influence, show that he was a distinctive thinker, whose arguments repay careful analysis and who used his literary talents in conjunction with his philosophical abilities to present a complex view of the world.
Author | : Arthur Stephen McGrade |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2003-08-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521000635 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, first published in 2003, takes its readers into one of the most exciting periods in the history of philosophy. It spans a millennium of thought extending from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas and beyond. It includes not only the thinkers of the Latin West but also the profound contributions of Islamic and Jewish thinkers such as Avicenna and Maimonides. Leading specialists examine what it was like to do philosophy in the cultures and institutions of the Middle Ages and engage all the areas in which medieval philosophy flourished, including language and logic, the study of God and being, natural philosophy, human nature, morality, and politics. The discussion is supplemented with chronological charts, biographies of the major thinkers, and a guide to the transmission and translation of medieval texts. The volume will be invaluable for all who are interested in the philosophical thought of this period.
Author | : Noel Harold Kaylor |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 685 |
Release | : 2012-05-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 900418354X |
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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.
Author | : Ann W. Astell |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2019-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501733257 |
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Calling into question the common assumption that the Middle Ages produced no secondary epics, Ann W. Astell here revises a key chapter in literary history. She examines the connections between the Book of Job and Boethius' s Consolation of Philosophy—texts closely associated with each other in the minds of medieval readers and writers—and demonstrates that these two works served as a conduit for the tradition of heroic poetry from antiquity through the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance. As she traces the complex influences of classical and biblical texts on vernacular literature, Astell offers provocative readings of works by Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, Malory, Milton, and many others. Astell looks at the relationship between the historical reception of the epic and successive imitative forms, showing how Boethius's Consolation and Johan biblical commentaries echo the allegorical treatment of" epic truth" in the poems of Homer and Virgil, and how in turn many works classified as "romance" take Job and Boethius as their models. She considers the influences of Job and Boethius on hagiographic romance, as exemplified by the stories of Eustace, Custance, and Griselda; on the amatory romances of Abelard and Heloise, Dante and Beatrice, and Troilus and Criseyde; and on the chivalric romances of Martin of Tours, Galahad, Lancelot, and Redcrosse. Finally, she explores an encyclopedic array of interpretations of Job and Boethius in Milton's Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.
Author | : Jeffrey E. Brower |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2004-03-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521775960 |
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Author | : Brian Davies |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2004-12-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521002059 |
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Author | : Stephen Blackwood |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2015-04-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0191028118 |
Download The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, literature was read with the ear as much as with the eye: silent reading was the exception; audible reading, the norm. This highly original book shows that Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy - one of the most widely-read texts in Western history - aims to affect the listener through the designs of its rhythmic sound. Stephen Blackwood argues that the Consolation's metres are arranged in patterns that have a therapeutic and liturgical purpose: as a bodily mediation of the text's consolation, these rhythmic patterns enable the listener to discern the eternal in the motion of time. The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy vividly explores how in this acoustic encounter with the text philosophy becomes a lived reality, and reading a kind of prayer.
Author | : Catarina Dutilh Novaes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2016-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107062314 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The very first dedicated, comprehensive companion to medieval logic, covering both the Latin and Arabic sister traditions.
Author | : Kirk Freudenburg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2005-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521803595 |
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Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, placing them within the contexts of Greco-Roman literary and political history. Besides addressing basic questions of authors, content, and form, the volume looks to the question of what satire 'does' within the world of Greco-Roman social exchanges, and goes on to treat the genre's further development, reception, and translation in Elizabethan England and beyond. Included are studies of the prosimetric, 'Menippean' satires that would become the models of Rabelais, Erasmus, More, and (narrative satire's crowning jewel) Swift.