Thursday, September 15, 2016

Boethius at Kalamazoo 2017

The International Boethius Society will sponsor a session on “Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae: Reception, Translation, and Influence” at the 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, May 11-14, 2017. Congratulations!

Philip Edward Phillips (Middle Tennessee State University), Organizer and Chair

1. Chancing Analogic Thought in Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae
Sister Lucia Treanor, FSE (Grand Valley State University)

2. Chaucer’s Boethian Humility: Escaping Celebrity in Boece and The House of Fame
Gillian Adler (Saint Peter’s University)

3. “Jewels in a Crown of Lead”: The Consolatory Structure of Coleridge’s Boethian Biographia Literaria
Anthony G. Cirilla (Niagara University)

Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. (Troy University), Respondent

The Society will host its annual business meeting & wine reception at the Congress. All IBS members and fellow Boethians are cordially invited to attend. More details to come soon.