New Directions in Boethian Studies

Noel Harold Kaylor Jr. is Professor of English at Troy University, Executive Director of the International Boethius Society and coeditor of its interdisciplinary journal, Carmina Philosophiae. Philip Edward Phillips is Professor of English and Associate Dean of the University Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University.

• Introduction by Noel Harold Kaylor Jr. and Philip Edward PhillipsPart I: Boethius's Latin De Consolatione PhilosophiaeThe Philosophical Background of Sufficientia in Boethius's Consolation, Book 3 by William J. Asbell Jr.Boethius's Consolatio Philosophiae as a Bridge between Classical and Christian Conceptions of Tragedy by Christine HeroldThis is Comforting? Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, Rhetoric, Dialectic, and “Unicum Illud Inter Homines Deumque Commercium" by Krista Sue-Lo TwuPart II: Vernacular Translation of the ConsolatioA Dit Contre Fortune, the Medieval French Boethian Consolatio Contained in MS Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fr. 25418 by J. Keith AtkinsonAn Italian Translation of Le Livre de Boece de Consolacion by Glynnis M. CroppSome Vernacular Versions of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae in Medieval Spain: Notes on Their Relationship with the Commentary Tradition by Francesca ZiinoPart III: Boethius in Art and Literary HistoryVisualizing Boethius's Consolation as Romance by Ann W. AstellThe Eternal Triangle of Writer, Patron, and Fortune in Late Medieval Literature by Christoph HouswitschkaBoethius, the Wife of Bath, and the Dialectic of Paradox by Michael MasiPart IV: Boethius in Religion and MythographyBoethius, Christ, and the New Order by Romanus CessarioThe Muses in the Consolation: The Late Medieval Mytholographic Tradition by Graham N. DrakePart V: Reedition of The Boke of Coumfort of BoisThe Boke of Coumfort of Bois [Bodleian Library, Oxford MS AUCT. F. 3.5]: A Transcription with Introduction—Originally transcribed, edited and introduced by Noel Harold Kaylor Jr., Jason Edward Streed, and William H. Watts, Reedited here by Noel Harold Kaylor Jr., and Philip Edward PhillipsContributorsIndex of ManuscriptsGeneral Index