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This biographical study of the Roman senator begins by tracing his political career under the Gothic king Theoderic the Great. Subsequent chapters describe his educational programme in the liberal arts, his translations into Latin of the works of Aristotle and Plato, and his own compositions.



The Consolations of Philosophy by Boethius, whose English translators include King Alfred, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Queen Elizabeth I, ranks among the most remarkable books to be written by a prisoner awaiting the execution of a tyrannical death sentence. Its interpretation is bound up with his other writings on mathematics and music, on Aristotelian and propositional logic, and on central themes of Christian dogma. Chadwick begins by tracing the career of Boethius, a Roman rising to high office under the Gothic King Theoderic the Great, and suggests that his death may be seen as a cruel by-product of Byzantine ambitions to restore Roman imperial rule after its elimination in the West in AD 476. Subsequent chapters examine in detail his educational programme in the liberal arts designed to avert a threatened collapse of culture and his ambition to translate into Latin everything he could find on Plato and Aristotle. Boethius has been called `last of the Romans, first of the scholastics'. This book is the first major study in English of a writer who was of critical importance in the history of thought.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 04 oktober 1990

Aantal pagina's: 328

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Henry Chadwick

Hoofduitgeverij: Clarendon Press

Editie: New edition

Product breedte: 139 mm

Product hoogte: 18 mm

Product lengte: 216 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 139 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 18 mm

Verpakking lengte: 216 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 428 g

EAN: 9780198265498

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