Boethius The Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy

Name: Boethius The Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780198265498

ISBN-10: 0198265492

ISBN-13: 9780198265498

Edition: 1981 (Reprint)

Authors: Henry Chadwick

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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…

Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/8/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English