The Consolation of Philosophy
While under arrest and awaiting execution by King Theodoric for threatening his position by attempting to reconcile a schism between Rome and Constantinople in 524, Boethius wrote his best know work, The Consolation of Philosophy, in which he argues that despite the seeming injustice of the world, there is, in Platonic fashion, a higher realm and that all else is subordinate to that divine Providence.
King Alfred’s Version of the Consolations of Boethius. Done into Modern English, with an Introduction by Walter John Sedgefield Litt.D. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900).
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Table of Contents
- King Alfred’s Version of the Consolations of Boethius
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- § 1. Wessex at Peace. Alfred’s Reforms.
- § 2. His Zeal for Learning.
- § 3. The De Consolatione Philosophiae of Boethius.
- § 4. Boethius and his Fate.
- § 5. Alfred’s Method of Translation.
- § 6. Manuscripts of the Old English Boethius.
- § 7. The Two Versions of the Lays of Boethius.
- § 8. A list of Alfred’s notable comments and additions may be here given:
- § 9. Later English Versions of the ‘Consolations.’
- Boethius, Book iii, metr. 2.
- Book iv, prose 2.
- Book iii, metr. 2.
- Book iv, prose 2.
- Book iv, prose 2.
- Book iv, prose 2.
- Book iv, prose 2.
- Book iv, prose 2.
- SUMMARY OF CONTENTS
- BOOK I Chapters I-VI
- BOOK II. Chapters VII-XXI
- BOOK III. Chapters XXII-XXXV
- BOOK IV. Chapters XXXVI-XL
- BOOK V. Chapters XL to End.
- King Alfred’s Version of the Consolations of Boethius
- PROEM
- Boethius and Theodoric
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
- XVIII
- XIX
- XX
- XXI
- XXII
- XXIII
- XXIV
- XXV
- XXVI
- XXVII
- XXVIII
- XXIX
- XXX
- XXXI
- XXXII
- XXXIII
- XXXIV
- XXXV
- XXXVI
- XXXVII
- XXXVIII
- XXXIX
- XL
- XLI
- XLII
- THE LAYS OF BOETHIUS
- PRELUDE (Not in Boethius.)
- LAYS
- I: (Not in Boethius.) Cf. p. 1.
- II: Boeth. i. metr. 1. Cf. p. 2.
- III: Boeth. i. metr. 2. Cf. p. 4.
- IV: Boeth. i. metr. 5. Cf p. 5.
- V: Boeth. i. metr. 7. Cf. p. 10.
- VI: Boeth. ii. metr. 3. Cf. p. 18.
- VII: Boeth. ii. metr. 4. Cf. p. 25.
- VIII: Boeth. ii. metr. 5. Cf. p. 33.
- IX: Boeth. ii. metr. 6. Cf. p. 40.
- X: Boeth. ii. metr. 7. Cf. p. 47.
- XI: Boeth. ii. metr. 8. Cf. p. 50.
- XII: Boeth. iii. metr. 1. Cf. p. 54.
- XIII: Boeth. iii. metr. 2. Cf. p. 60.
- XIV: Boeth. iii. metr. 3. Cf. p. 65.
- XV: Boeth. iii. metr. 4. Cf. p. 69.
- XVI: Boeth. iii. metr. 5. Cf. p. 73.
- XVII: Boeth. iii. metr. 6. Cf. p. 75.
- XVIII: Boeth. iii. metr. 7. Cf. p. 77.
- XIX: Boeth. iii metr. 8. Cf p. 80.
- XX: Boeth. iii. metr. 9. Cf. p. 87.
- XXI: Boeth. iii. metr. 10. Cf. p. 100.
- XXII: Boeth. iii. metr. 11. Cf. p. 107.
- XXIII: Boeth. iii. metr. 12. Cf. p. 115.
- XXIV: Boeth. iv. metr. 1. Cf. p. 120.
- XXV: Boeth. iv. metr. 2. Cf. p. 128.
- XXVI: Boeth. iv. metr. 3. Cf. p. 127.
- XXVII: Boeth. iv. metr. 4. Cf. p. 133.
- XXVIII: Boeth. iv. metr. 5. Cf. p. 139.
- XXIX: Boeth. iv. metr. 6. Cf. p. 142
- XXX: Boeth. v. metr. 2. Cf. p. 159.
- XXXI: Boeth. v. metr. 5. Cf. p. 161.
- NOTES
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