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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Boethius"”.
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Poetry and Philosophy in Boethius and Dante
… and influence of the structural complexity of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy on Dante’s Commedia, arguing that the latter is a deliberate response to the former. The General Introduction sets the groundwork through a survey of the major scholarship on Dante and Boethius; the genre of the …
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The Translation and Reception of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy in Renaissance Literary Culture, 1556-1674
… I offer the first comprehensive treatment of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy (524 AD) in its early modern English translations. I situate the translations produced between 1556 and 1674 against trends in the European book trade, continental scholarship, and the Boethian commentary …
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The Concept of Person in Christian Theology: An Exposition and Defense of a Classical Boethian/Thomistic Definition of Person
… classical definition of person as formulated by Boethius: persona est rationalis naturae individua substantia—a person is an individual substance (subsistence) of a rational nature. Special attention is paid to Thomas Aquinas’ exposition and defense of Boethius’ definition in the Summa …
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Who is consoled by the Consolation of philosophy?
… the answer to this question on the basis of Boethius' own expectations, namely that a good life, an honest life deserves its reward and not the ultimate punishment of death. Then, following a long journey accompanied by Lady Philosophy, Boethius understood that God's ways do not coincide with …
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Omnis Determinatio est Negatio: A Genealogy and Defense of the Hegelian Conception of Negation
… of philosophical genealogy, focusing on Plato, Boethius and Hegel, the dissertation is also intended as a defense of the philosophical significance of negation itself, and of a principle Hegel famously attributes to Spinoza, omnis determinatio est negatio. I argue that in explaining negation as …
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The ritus canendi vetustissimus et novus of Johannes Legrense: a critical edition with translation, introduction and notes on the text
… of the sixth century theorist and philosopher Boethius. Particularly significant here is Johannes' inspirational grasp of the basis of Boethius' modes; a summary of the medieval perception of these modes provides the context whereby incongruities in Johannes' text are identified, and the …
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Aristotelian and other auctoritates in the works of Enrique de Villena, and their possible sources
… of work, not solely for Aristotle, but also for Boethius and Seneca. In a third evaluation, I assess the possible sources of what I identify as a ‘double authority’ in <i>Glosas</i> 35 (Plato/Boethius and Vegetius). As a result, I have formed the opinion that a conjectural notebook, similar in …
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Draumkvedet and the Medieval English Dream Vision: A Study of Genre
… Philosophical visions by Plato, Cicero and Boethius, and Christian revelations of John and Paul contain traits that found their way into the dream poems by Langland, the Pearl poet and Chaucer. The Norwegian ballad Draumkvedet exhibits features that mirror these English visions. Notable …
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Labyrinthum capellae. Le "Annotationes in Marcianum" di Giovanni Scoto Eriugena e la fortuna del neoplatonismo cristiano
… bat believed in the power of the studium: Boethius, Cassiodorus, Isidorus of Seville, Hrabanus Maurus and Lupus of Ferriéres. In order to get an idea of this conception, I finally focused the research on Iohannes Scotus Eriugena's Annotationes in Marcianum. I commented Eriugena's work …
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Star-struck, lovesick, poet-musicians: Troubadours and the cultural significance of music in Medieval society
… song a difficult genre to categorize neatly. Boethius’ influential tripartite categorization of music—musica mundana, musica humana, and musica instrumentalis—provides a useful framework for considering the role of troubadour song in other aspects of medieval culture. Musical cosmology or …
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Principles of Soft Metrology and measurement procedures in humans
… of the history of philosophy. Since Plato and Boethius, passing through all the history of Greek and Indian ancient philosophy, getting to the modern era with Descartes and Hume until reaching contemporary philosophy of mind, human perception has been always a central topic of thought as a key …
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Boethian Colorings in Geoffrey Chaucer's Earlier Poetry: The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls and The House of Fame
There has been much written on Boethius and his impact on Chaucer's greater known works, such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, yet there has not been much light shone on his other works, namely The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, and The House of Fame, which are a …
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The Appeal and Reception of the Legend of Saint Eustace in Early Medieval England and Medieval Scandinavia
… traditions, especially that of the study of Boethius, and how these aspects affected its reception and popularity in England and Scandinavia. The thesis will be accompanied by an edition and translation of the Latin base text as extant in CCCC 9 and an edition and translation of the …
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Primary and Secondary Causality in the Thought of St. Anselm: A Speculation on Divine Omniscience, Predestination and Grace in the Context of Human Freedom and Spirituality
… treatment by others, especially Augustine and Boethius, this study proposes three theories which articulate the logical compatibility of eternal knowledge and free choice: (1) cognitive causality, (2) divine foreknowledge understood as predestination, and (3) the duality of epistemological …
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Interpolated lyric in medieval narrative poetry
… through Chaucer's reading of Boccaccio and Boethius. I thus consider Chaucer's use of Boccaccio's Il Filostrato in the light of Boccaccio's own knowledge of this French tradition from his position in the Angevin court of Naples. In addition, by investigating French translations of Boethius's …
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"Imagined crusaders: the ""Livre d'Eracles"" in fifteenth century Burgundian collections"
"The following study analyzes the conception and reception of the illuminated volumes of the crusade history the ""Livre d’Eracles"" (hereafter ""Eracles"") as it was conceived and collected in the fifteenth-century court of Burgundy, centered in the Burgundian Netherlands. It considers four …