Aspects of the Medieval French and English Traditions of the 'De Consolatione Philosophiae'

Author / Editor
Minnis, A. J.

Title
Aspects of the Medieval French and English Traditions of the 'De Consolatione Philosophiae'

Published
Margaret Gibson, ed. Boethius: His Life, Thought and Influence (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981), pp. 312-61.

Description
Considers the influence of Boethius's "Consolatione," with its medieval glosses, on Old French and Middle English literature, especially Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose" and Chaucer's MkT (Croesus, Nero), Bo, KnT, and TC.

Contributor
Gibson, Margaret, ed.

Alternative Title
Boethius: His Life, Thought and Influence.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.