• The Old English Boethius is an Old English translation/adaptation of the sixth-century Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, dating from between c. 880...
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    Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, commonly known simply as Boethius (/boʊˈiːθiəs/; Latin: Boetius; c. 480–524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, magister...
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    (2015). The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198718314. Boethius, The Consolation...
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  • philosophy of Boethius called the Lays of Boethius. Several Old English poems are adaptations of late classical philosophical texts. The longest is a 10th-century...
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    Irvine, Susan, Susan Elizabeth Irvine, and Malcolm Godden, eds. The Old English Boethius: with verse prologues and epilogues associated with King Alfred...
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    The Earliest English Kings (Revised ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-4152-4211-0. Kiernan, Kevin S. (1998). "Alfred the Great's Burnt Boethius"....
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  • Malcolm Godden (category Fellows of the British Academy)
    (Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series; 18.) Oxford: University Press, 2000 The Old English Boethius: an edition of the Old English versions...
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    Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (category Translations into English)
    Byzantine Greek, Old English, and the languages of the medieval Iberian peninsula, with facing-page translations into modern English. The aim is to make...
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    Old English poems are adaptations of late classical philosophical texts. The longest is King Alfred's (849–899) 9th-century translation of Boethius'...
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  • The Phoenix is an anonymous Old English poem. It is composed of 677 lines and is for the most part a translation and adaptation of the Latin poem De Ave...
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  • In Old English poetry, many descriptive epithets for God were used to satisfy alliterative requirements. These epithets include: Name of God in Christianity...
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    question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of runes. The Old English rune poem, dated to the 8th or 9th century, has stanzas on 29 Anglo-Saxon runes...
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    instance, there is the inclusion of philosophical themes—mainly of the kind contained in the Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius—astrological references...
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    Elpide, was a Latin poet and hymnographer, and the first wife of Severinus Boethius. Two hymns of praise to the apostles Peter and Paul are traditionally attributed...
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  • Musical note (category Pages using the Score extension)
    = ♭ (flat) Boethius, A.M.S. [[scores:De institutione musica (Boëthius, Anicius Manlius Severinus)  |De institutione musica]]: text at the International...
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  • (1996). Translations and Translation Principles in the Old English and Old High German Versions of Boethius's "De Consolatione Philosophiae". Minneapolis, Wisconsin:...
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    Canterbury Tales in the 1380s. Chaucer also translated Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy and The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris (extended by Jean...
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    Wayland the Smith (Old English: Wēland; Old Norse: Vǫlundr [ˈvɔlundr̩], Velent [ˈvelent]; Old Frisian: Wela(n)du; German: Wieland der Schmied; Old High German:...
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  • Cornish language (redirect from Old Cornish)
    Celtic Studies. 50: 77–86. Breeze, A. (1 December 2007). "The Old Cornish Gloss on Boethius". Notes and Queries. 54 (4): 367–368. doi:10.1093/notesj/gjm184...
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    Theodoric had the philosopher and court official Boethius and Boethius' father-in-law Symmachus arrested on charges of treason related to the alleged plot...
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  • to appear at the end. Welsh Triads Behaghel's laws [Oxford English Dictionary]. W.H. Race, The Classical Priamel from Homer to Boethius (Leiden, 1982:...
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    but was greatly popularized for the Middle Ages by its extended treatment in the Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius from around 520. It became a common...
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  • Argument from free will (category Arguments against the existence of God)
    Philosophiae, Boethius, book 5:4 C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity Touchstone: New York, 1980 p. 149 Barker, Dan (August 1997). "The Free will Argument for the Nonexistence...
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  • Herennium and Boethius' De topicis differentiis by John of Antioch in 1282. In northern Italy, authors developed Franco-Italian, a mixed language of Old French...
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    "other world" are found in all peoples. Augustine of Hippo, Soliloquia Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae Cicero, Dream of Scipio Macrobius, Commentary...
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    classical authors, including the Pro Marcello of Cicero, the De consolatione philosophiae of Boethius, a treatise by Plutarch, and the Annals of Tacitus. A translation...
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    Old Latin, also known as Early, Archaic or Priscan Latin (Classical Latin: prīsca Latīnitās, lit. 'ancient Latinity'), was the Latin language in the period...
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    Rococo authors Ercol, a synonym for the Roman deity Hercules used in King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiae Frau Berchta...
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  • the poem Boecis ("Boethius"), written in the Occitan dialect of the Limousin region in southern France about 1000 AD. An example is the following extract:...
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    Late Latin (category Languages attested from the 3rd century)
    witnessed the beginning and end of Ostrogoth rule in Italy, Latin literature becomes medieval. Boethius was the last 'ancient' author and the role of Rome...
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