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The Old English Boethius - An Edition of the Old English Versions of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae (Multiple copy pack, New)
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The Old English Boethius - An Edition of the Old English Versions of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae (Multiple copy pack, New)
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Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, written in Latin around 525
A.D., was to become one of the most influential literary texts of
the Middle Ages. The Old English prose translation and adaptation
which was produced around 900 and claims to be by King Alfred was
one of the earliest signs of its importance and use, and the
subsequent rewriting of parts as verse show an interest in
rivalling the literary shape of the Latin original. The many
changes and additions have much to tell us about Anglo-Saxon
interests and scholarship in the Alfredian period. This new edition
is the first to present the second prose-and-verse version of the
Old English text, and allows it to be read alongside the original
prose version, for which this is the first edition for over a
century, and the introduction and commentary reveal much about the
history of the text and its composition.
The edition contains critical texts of both versions; a
translation; a full introduction examining the manuscripts, the
composition of the prose text and of the subsequent verse, the
language, the authorship and date of the two versions, the
relationship to other texts of the period and later uses of it, and
the nature and purpose of the work; a detailed commentary exploring
the relationship to the Latin text and to the early medieval
commentary tradition; textual notes; and a glossary.
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