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The Old English Boethius - with Verse Prologues and Epilogues Associated with King Alfred (Hardcover)
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The Old English Boethius - with Verse Prologues and Epilogues Associated with King Alfred (Hardcover)
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
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The Old English Boethius boldly refashions in Anglo-Saxon guise a
great literary monument of the late-antique world, The Consolation
of Philosophy. Condemned to death for treason around 525 ce, the
Roman scholar Boethius turned to philosophy to transform his
personal distress into a powerful meditation on fate, free will,
and the human capacity for virtue in a flawed, fallen world.
Boethius's Latin dialogues found a receptive audience in
Anglo-Saxon England, where they were translated into Old English
some time around 900. The translator (traditionally identified with
King Alfred) freely adapts the Latin for a new audience: the Roman
Fabricius, for example, becomes the Germanic weapon-smith Weland.
The translation replicates Boethius's alternation of prose and
verse-only in this case Old English prose alternates with
alliterative verse. In later centuries Chaucer and Queen Elizabeth
each turned The Consolation of Philosophy into English, but the Old
English translation was the first to bring it to a wider vernacular
audience. Verse prologues and epilogues for works traditionally
associated with King Alfred fill out the volume, offering readers a
fascinating glimpse of the moment when English confidently claimed
its birthright as a literature capable of anything, from sublime
ideas to subtle poetry.
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