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The Old English Boethius: with Verse Prologues and Epilogues Associated with King Alfred (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

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 | #1246265 in Books |  2012-11-19 |  2012-10-15 | Original language:Old English | PDF # 1 |  1.30 x5.40 x8.10l,1.27 | File type: PDF | 480 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Very worthwhile|By Bill Carpenter|Beautiful edition at a decent price. Read the late Roman classic in the language of our West Saxon predecessors. Facing Modern English and Old English.

This translation is reputedly by King Alfred of Wessex, who added some original alliterative poetry. Later Chaucer and Queen Elizabeth I translated it into the English of their era

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 Engl...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Old English Boethius: with Verse Prologues and Epilogues Associated with King Alfred (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)   |  From Harvard University Press. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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