Impersonating Boethius in Middle English Literature

Author / Editor
Nielsen, Melinda.

Title
Impersonating Boethius in Middle English Literature

Published
DAI A73.06 (2012): n.p.

Description
Considers the medieval interest in Boethius as a personal model as well as a literary influence, with particular regard to Usk's deployment of Boethius in an effort at self-justification and Hoccleve's connections between Boethius and Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion