George Colvile's Translation of the "Consolation of Philosophy."
- Author / Editor
- Cornelius, Ian.
George Colvile's Translation of the "Consolation of Philosophy."
- Published
- Ardis Butterfield, Ian Johnson, and Andrew Kraebel, eds. Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages: Interpretation, Invention, Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 220-48.
- Description
- Explains how George Colvile's 1556 translation of Boethius's "Consolatio" is a "medieval throwback," tracing its marginal explanatory notes to medieval commentary and finding similar commentary "intercalated" with Boethius's poems, tentatively suggesting that some locutions recall Bo, and showing how "Colvile's procedures are closer to those of Chaucer than to subsequent English translators of this text," although his translation is not a "redaction" of Bo, nor did he use it in a systematic way.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Boece
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion