Boethius s "De Consolatione Philosophiae" was among the most persistent and extensive influences on Chaucer s writing. Its ideas appear in various works, including the "Knight s Tale" and "Troilus and Criseyde," while the so-called Boethian balades offer poetic renditions of small sections of the Consolation. Around 1380 Chaucer translated the whole of the "Consolation" into English, drawing not only on the Latin Vulgate "Consolatio" but also on Jean de Meun s French translation ("Li Livres de confort de philosophie") and on Nicholas Trevet s Latin commentary on the...
Boethius s "De Consolatione Philosophiae" was among the most persistent and extensive influences on Chaucer s writing. Its ideas appear in various ...
In volume 1 of Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves (Georgia, 1997), Ralph Hanna and Traugott Lawler presented authoritative versions of three medieval texts invoked by Jankyn (fifth husband of the Wife of Bath) in The Canterbury Tales. In Jankyn's Book, volume 2, Lawler and Hanna revisit one of those texts by way of presenting all the known contemporary commentaries on it.
The text is Walter Map's "Dissuasio Valerii," that is, "The Letter of Valerius to His Friend Ruffinus, Dissuading Him from Marrying." Included in Jankyn's Book, volume 2, are seven commentaries on...
In volume 1 of Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves (Georgia, 1997), Ralph Hanna and Traugott Lawler presented authoritative versions of three medi...
