Nature, Astronomy, and Cosmology in Chaucer's "Boece."
- Author / Editor
- McMullen, A. Joseph.
Nature, Astronomy, and Cosmology in Chaucer's "Boece."
- Published
- A. Joseph McMullen and Erica Weaver, eds. The Legacy of Boethius in Medieval England: The "Consolation" and Its Afterlives (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018.), pp. 143-54.
- Description
- Identifies Chaucer’s "cosmological additions" to Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" when translating it as "Boece," identifying the sources of these additions in earlier translations and commentaries, and speculating that Chaucer includes glosses and extrapolations about "nature, astronomy, and cosmology" in order to emphasize Boethius's theme that "through an understanding of the cosmos . . . one can begin to learn about oneself."
- Alternative Title
- The Legacy of Boethius in Medieval England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Boece
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations