Forging Boethius in Medieval Intellectual Fantasies.
- Author / Editor
- Hunter, Brooke.
Forging Boethius in Medieval Intellectual Fantasies.
- Published
- New York: Routledge, 2019.
- Physical Description
- xi, 194 pp.
- Description
- Considers the "influence of the thirteenth-century Pseudo-Boethian forgery 'De Disciplina Scolarium' on medieval understandings of Boethius." Includes "'Bitwixen game and ernest': Contrary Boethianism in TC," which examines the "contraries" of the poem and emphasizes how they reflect a broader "Boethianism" than that found only in the "De consolatione Philosophiae." Pandarus is a "Boethian pander and pedagogue within the tradition" comprising "De disciplina," Boethian logic, commentaries on Boethius, and the characterization of Boethius in Maximian's "Third Elegy"--a tradition in which "serious lessons" are taught "through counterintuitive means" and male-male friendship.
- Alternative Title
- "Bitwixen game and ernest’" Contrary Boethianism in "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations