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The Roman philosopher Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy in 524 AD (image from a 1385 manuscript) while imprisoned.. Prison literature is the literary genre of works written by an author in unwilling confinement, such as a prison, jail or house arrest. [1]
Miniatures of Boethius teaching and in prison from a 1385 Italian manuscript. Boethius and Consolatio Philosophiae are cited frequently by the main character Ignatius J. Reilly in the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Confederacy of Dunces (1980). It is a prosimetrical text, meaning that it is written in alternating sections of prose and metered verse.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, [6] [note 1] ... Prison literature; Elpis (wife of Boethius) Notes
In early 1347, John Kalekas was deposed as Patriarch, and Gregory Palamas was released from prison. In May 1347, John Kantakouzenos crowned himself emperor in Constantinople. [ 28 ] Subsequent councils held in Constantinople in May–June and July 1351 affirmed Palamism as orthodox doctrine, excommunicating Barlaam, Akindynos, and Nicephorus ...
The title of the book is a reference to Boethius's magnum opus Consolation of Philosophy, in which philosophy appears as an allegorical figure to Boethius to console him in the year he was imprisoned, leading up to his impending execution.
The Old English Consolation texts are known from three medieval manuscripts/fragments and an early modern copy: [2]. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 180 (known as MS B). Produced at the end of the eleventh century or the beginning of the twelfth), translating the whole of the Consolation (prose and verse) into pro
Boece is Geoffrey Chaucer's translation into Middle English of The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius. [1] The original work, written in Latin, stresses the importance of philosophy to everyday life and was one of the major works of philosophy in the Middle Ages.
Boethius, In Categorias Aristotelis and Commentaria in Porphirium [164] Sixtus Riessinger [164] Naples [164] These commentaries are present together with Boethius' translations from the Greek of Porphyry's Isagoge and of Aristotle's Categoriae. [164] c. 1475 [280]-1478 [281] Venantius Fortunatus, Vita Sanctae Radegundis [282] Boninus Mombritius ...