Scribal Role, Authorial Intention, and Chaucer's 'Boece'

Description: That the Bo scribes altered their text in a number of substantive ways suggests that the "Consolatione" was not a fixed text but a living tradition. This tradition became even more diverse whenever the "Consolatione" was translated. The implication of scribal alteration in texts such as Bo involve the definitions of author and authorial intention and impinge on the procedures and goals of a modern editor.