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The Prisoner's Philosophy: Life and Death in Boethius's Consolation, 2007, ISBN 978-0872205833. Sanderson Beck, The Consolation of Boethius an analysis and commentary. 1996. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I Ch.6.5: De Consolatione Philosophiae, 1907–1921.
Boece is Geoffrey Chaucer's translation into Middle English of The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius. [1] The original work, written in Latin, stresses the importance of philosophy to everyday life and was one of the major works of philosophy in the Middle Ages.
Sedgefield, Walter John, ed. and trans., King Alfred’s Version of the Consolations of Boethius (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900) (PDF) Foys, Martin et al. (eds.): Old English versions of the Boethian Meters are being edited to digital images of their manuscript pages (including UV images) and Junius's transcriptions, and translated, in the Old ...
A codex of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy is the focus of The Late Scholar, a Lord Peter Wimsey novel by Jill Paton Walsh. In the video game Genshin Impact , the song "Metres of Boethius" plays within the Sea of Bygone Eras, where the sunken civilization of Remuria once worshipped the Grand Symphony.
Seneca the Younger produced the most recognizable examples of consolatio in his three Consolations, Ad Marciam, Ad Polybium, and Ad Helviam Matrem. The most recognizable example of consolatio in verse form is the pseudo-Ovidian Consolatio ad Liviam. [4] In Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Philosophy herself consoles the author in his sore ...
The Consolations of Philosophy (ISBN 0-140-27661-0) is a non-fiction book by Alain de Botton. First published by Hamish Hamilton in 2000, subsequent publications (2001 onwards) have been by Penguin Books .
Blackwood lectures and writes on the intellectual and cultural development of the West, and specializes in the history of philosophy, [5] especially Boethius. [6] [7] [8] Oxford University Press published his book The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy in 2015.
Historically and philosophically, consolation plays an important symbolic role in the sixth century work, On the Consolation of Philosophy. The author, Boethius, describes himself as being consoled by "Lady Philosophy" (a personification of philosophy) after having been sentenced to death for alleged crimes against the state. [11] Taken ...