1st Edition

Forging Boethius in Medieval Intellectual Fantasies

By Brooke Hunter Copyright 2019
208 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Forging Boethius in Medieval Intellectual Fantasies reconsiders the influence of the thirteenth-century Pseudo-Boethian forgery De disciplina scolarium on medieval understandings of Boethius (d. 524). Tracing the medieval popularity of De disciplina ’s reimagined vision of Boethius alongside the current scholarly neglect of this forged Boethian persona offers insight into how medieval... Read more

Introduction: De disciplina scolarium and the Boethian Corpus



Chapter One: Reproduction and Philosophical Life in the Consolatio Philosophiae



Chapter Two: De disciplina and Translatio Studii



Chapter Three: Boethian Humor



Chapter Four: ‘Bitwixen game and ernest’: Contrary Boethianism in Troilus and Criseyde



Chapter Five: Boethius and the Humanists: Valla, Badius, and Persistence of De disciplina in Print



References



Index

Biography

Brooke Hunter is Assistant Professor of English at Villanova University, USA.