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A newly identified Scottish Boethius manuscript: rethinking Scotland's intellectual and literary culture in the Middle Ages
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The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius (c.480- 524 AD) was pivotal in the formation of Western intellectual and literary culture, and second in influence only to the Bible. A repository of information on classical history, myth, the natural world, and the human psyche, this work’s legacy endured across medieval and early-modern Europe in myriad forms and languages. Its interrogation of free-will, fate, and mankind’s place in the world, most acutely focused by its allegorical imagery of the...
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- Peer review status:
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- British Academy Publisher's website
- Journal:
- British Academy Review Journal website
- Volume:
- 26
- Issue:
- Summer 2015
- Pages:
- 58-63
- Publication date:
- 2015-08-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2015-07-08
- EISSN:
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2047-1874
- ISSN:
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2047-1866
- Source identifiers:
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612582
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