Bibliography

BOETHIUS: A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR STUDENTS
Philip Edward Phillips
Middle Tennessee State University

This highly selective bibliography includes the primary works Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (c. 480-524/25 CE), secondary works (mostly in English) on the life, thought, works, and influence of Boethius, and other bibliographies. This bibliography, which is updated periodically, offers a gateway to research for all readers Boethius, especially graduate and advanced undergraduate students in the humanities.

  

PRIMARY WORKS


Complete Latin Works

Manlii Severini Boethii Opera omnia. Patrologiae cursus completes. Ed. Jacques-Paul Migne. Series Latina 63 (Paris, 1882) and 64 (Paris, 1891).

De institutione arithmetica

Boethian Number Theory: A Translation of the “De institutione arithmetica.” Translated and edited by Michael Masi. Studies in Classical Antiquity 6. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1983.

 

De institutione musica

Boethius: Foundations of Music. Translated by Calvin M. Bower and edited by C.V. Palisca. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

 

The Logical Works

Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii “De divisione liber.” Edited and Translated by John Magee. Philosophia Antiqua 77. Leiden, Brill, 1998.

Ammonius: On Aristotle’s On Interpretation 9; with Boethius: On Aristotle’s On Interpretation 9, first and second commentaries. Translated by David Blank and Normann Kretzmann. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998.

Boethius’s In Ciceronis Topica. Translated by Eleonore Stump. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Boethius’s De topicis differentiis. Translated by Eleonore Stump. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978.

 

The Theological Works

Boethius: The Theological Tractates; The Consolation of Philosophy. Translated and edited by H.F. Stewart, E.K. Rand, and S.J. Tester. Loeb Classical Library 74. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973.

 

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae; Opuscula theologica. 2nd edition. Edited by Claudio Moreschini. Munich: K.G. Saur, 2005.

 

Some Modern Translations/Editions of the Consolation of Philosophy

Boèce. La Consolation de Philosophie. Introduction et traduction annotée du texte latin par Alain Galonnier et Jean-Louis Charlet. Philosophes Médiévaux, Tome LXXIV. Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters, 2022. [Latin and French]

Boethius. The Theological Tractates; The Consolation of Philosophy. Translated and edited by H. F. Stewart, E. K. Rand, and S. J. Tester. Loeb Classical Library 74. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973. [Latin and English]

 

Some Historical English Translations of the Consolation of Philosophy

The Old English Boethius: An Edition of the Old English Version of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae. 2 Vols. Edited by Malcolm Godden and Susan Irvine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. [Old English]

Boece. Translated by Geoffrey Chaucer. In The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd ed., edited by Larry D. Benson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. 395-469. [Middle English]

Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. Translated by John Walton. Edited by Mark Science. EETS, Original Series, No. 170. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1927. [Middle English]

The Consolation of Queen Elizabeth I: The Queen’s Translation of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae. Edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 366. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2009. [Early Modern English]

 

Some Commentaries on Boethius

Caiazzo, Irene, ed. The Commentary on the De arithmetica of Boethius. By Thierry of Chartres. Studies and Texts 191. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2015.

George, David B., and John R. Fortin, O.S.B., ed. The Boethian Commentaries of Clarembald of Arras. Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture 7. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.

Schultz, J.L., and E.A. Synan, ed. An Exposition of the “On the Hebdomads” of Boethius by St. Thomas Aquinas. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2001.

 

 

SECONDARY WORKS

Arnold, Johnathan J. Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Astell, Ann W. Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.

Asztalos, Monika. “Boethius as a Transmitter of Greek Logic to the Latin West: The Categories.” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 95 (1993): 367-407.

Balint, Bridget K. Ordering Chaos: The Self and the Cosmos in Twelfth-Century Prosimetrum Leiden: Brill, 2009.

Barrett, Helen M. Boethius: Some Aspects of his Times and Work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940; repr. New York: Russell and Russell, 1965.

Barrett, Sam. The Melodic Tradition of Boethius’ De consolatione philosophiae in the Middle Ages. Monumenta monodica medii aevi Subsidia 7. 2 Volumes. Bärenreiter: Kassel etc., 2013.

Belli, Margherita. Il Centro e la Circonferenza: Fortuna del De consolatione philosophiae di Boezio tra Valla e Leibniz. C.L.S.E., Subsida 14. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2011.

Benedict XVI. “On Boethius and Cassiodorus.” General Audience, Paul VI Hall, March 12, 2008: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2008/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20080312.html.

Bjornlie, M. Shane. Politics and Tradition Between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople: A Study of Cassiodorus and the Variae, 527-554. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Blackwood, Stephen. The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy. Oxford Early Christian Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Böhm, Thomas, and Thomas Jürgasch, and Andreas Kirchner, eds. Boethius as a Paradigm of Late Ancient Thought. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2014.

Bower, Calvin. “Boethius and Nichomachus: An Essay Concerning the Sources of De institutione musica.” Vivarium 16 (1978): 1-45.

Brancato, Dario. “Readers and Interpreters of the Consolatio in Italy, 1300-1550.” In A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 30. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 357-411.

Brown, Peter. The Making of Late Antiquity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1978.

Campbell, Austin Lee. “Consolation in Stitches.” The Journal of Religion 96.4 (October 2016): 439-466.

Casey, John Patrick. “Boethius’s Works on Logic in the Middle Ages.” In A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 30. Leiden: Brill, 2012.193-219.

Chadwick, Henry. Boethius: The Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.

_____. “Theta on Philosophy’s Dress in Boethius.” Medium Aevum 49.2 (1980): 175-79.

Chamberlain, David S. “Philosophy of Music in the Consolatio of Boethius.” Speculum 45.1 (1970): 80-97.

Cherniss, Michael D. Boethian Apocalypse: Studies in Middle English Vision Poetry. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1987.

Classen, Jo-Marie. Displaced Persons: The Literature of Exile from Cicero to Boethius. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.

Cornelius, Ian. “Boethius’ De consolatione philosophiae.” In The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, Vol. I (800-1558), edited by Rita Copeland. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 269-298.

Courcelle, Pierre. La Consolation de philosophie dans la tradition littéraire : antécédents et posterité de Boèce. Paris : Études Augustiniennes, 1967.

_____. Late Latin Writers and Their Greek Sources, translated by H. E. Wedeck. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969.

Cropp, Glynnis M. “Boethius in Medieval France: Translations of the De Consolatione Philosophiae and Literary Influence.” In A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 30. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 319-55.

Curley, T. F. “The Consolation of Philosophy as a Work of Literature.” American Journal of Philology (1987): 343-67.

_____. “How to Read the Consolation of Philosophy.” Interpretation 14 (1984): 211-63.

De Rijk, Lambert M. “On the Chronology of Boethius’ Works on Logic. I and II.” Vivarium 2 (1964): 1-49; 125-62.

De Vogel, Cornelia J. “Boethiana I.” Vivarium (1971): 59-66

_____. “Boethiana II.” Vivarium (1972): 1-40.

Discenza, Nicole Guenther. The King’s English: Strategies of Translation in the Old English Boethius. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005.

Discenza, Nicole G., and Paul E. Szarmach, eds. A Companion to Afred the Great. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 58. Leiden: Brill, 2015.

Donaghey, Brian. “The Post-Medieval English Translations of the De Consolatione Philosophiae of Boethius, 1500–1800.” In The Medieval Translator/Traduire au Moyen Age, vol. 5, edited by Roger Ellis and René Tixier. Turnhout: Brepols, 1996. 302–21.

Donaghey, Brian, Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., Philip Edward Phillips, and Paul E. Szarmach (with the assistance of Kenneth C. Hawley), eds. Remaking Boethius: The English Language Translation Tradition of The Consolation of Philosophy. Tempe, Arizona: ACMRS | Turnhout: Brepols, 2019.

Donato, Antonio. “Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy and the Greco-Roman Consolatory Tradition.” Traditio 67 (2012): 1-42.

_____. Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy as a Product of Late Antiquity. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.

Dronke, Peter. Verse with Prose from Petronius to Dante: The Art and Scope of the Mixed Form. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Dürr, Karl. The Propositional Logic of Boethius. Amsterdam: North Holland, 1951.

Dwyer, Richard A. Boethian Fictions: Narratives in the Medieval French Versions of the Consolatio Philosophiae. Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1976.

Ebbesen, Sten. “Boethius as an Aristotelian Commentator.” In Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence, edited by Richard Sorabji. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990. 373-92.

Economou, George. The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972.

Elliott, Elizabeth. Remembering Boethius: Writing Aristocratic Identity in Late Medieval French and English Literatures. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.

Foehr-Janssens, Yasmina, and Emmanuelle Métry, eds. La fortune: Thèmes, représentations, discours. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2003.

Fortin, John R. “The Nature of Consolation in The Consolation of Philosophy.” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 78.2 (2004): 293-307.

Frakes, Jerold C. The Fate of Fortune in the Early Middle Ages: The Boethian Tradition. Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 23. Leiden: Brill, 1988.

Fuhrmann, Manfred, and Joachim Gruber, eds. Boethius. Wege der Forschung 483. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1984.

Galonnier, Alain. Anecdoton Holderi ou Ordo generis Cassiodorum. Éléments pour une étude dll’authenticité boécienne des Opuscula Sacra. Preface by Fabio Troncarelli. Philosophes Médiévaux 35. Louven: Peeters, 1997.

_____, ed. Boèce ou la chaîne des savoirs : Actes du colloque internationale de la Fondation Singer-Polignac Paris, 8-12 juin 1999. Philosophes Médiéveaux 44. Leuven: Peeters, 2003.

Gibson, Margaret, ed. Boethius: His Life, Thought and Influence. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981.

Glei, Reinhold F, Nicola Kaminski, and Franz Lebsanft, ed. ‪Boethius Christianus?: Transformationen der Consolatio philosophiae in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit [Boethius Christianus? The Reception of Boethius’ “Consolatio Philosophiae” in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age]. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010.

Green-Pedersen, Niels Jørgen. The Tradition of the Topics in the Middle Ages: The Commentaries on Aristotle’s and Boethius’ Topics. Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 1984.

Gruber, Joachim. Kommentar zu Boethius’ De consolatione philosophiae. Texte und Kommentare 9. 2nd edition. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2006.

Gualtieri, Angelo. “Lady Philosophy in Boethius and Dante.” Comparative Literature 23.2 (1971): 141-50.

Guillaumin, Jean-Yves. “Boethius’s De Institutione Artithmetica and its Influence on Posterity.” In A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 30. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 135-161.

Hawley, Kenneth C. “The Boethian Vision of Eternity in Old, Middle, and Early Modern English Translations of De Consolatione Philosophiae.” Ph.D. Diss., University of Kentucky, 2007.

_____. “Henry Somerset and His Translation of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy.” In Vernacular Traditions of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae. Ed. Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., and Philip Edward Phillips. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2016. 285-398.

Hehle, Christine. “Boethius’s Influence on German Literature.” In A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 30. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 255-318.

Helleman, Wendy Elgersma. “Lady Philosophy as a Feminine Personification of Wisdom.” In Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy: A Critical Guide. Ed. Michael Wiitala. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 46-67.

Hoenen, Maarten, and Lodi Nauta, eds. Boethius in the Middle Ages: Latin and Vernacular Traditions of the Consolatio PhilosophiaeLeiden: Brill, 1997.

Johnson, Ian. “Authorial Self-Identification in the Acrostics of Walton’s Boethius and the Question of John Bonejohn.” In Vernacular Traditions of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae. Ed. Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., and Philip Edward Phillips. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2016. 271-281.

_____. “Making the Consolatio in Middle English.” In A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages. Ed. Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 30. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 413-46.

Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr. The Medieval Consolation of Philosophy: An Annotated Bibliography New York: Garland, 1992.

_____ and Philip Edward Phillips, eds. A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 30. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

_____ and Philip Edward Phillips, eds. New Directions in Boethian Studies. Studies in Medieval Culture 45. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007.

_____ and Philip Edward Phillips, eds. Vernacular Traditions of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2016.

King, Peter. “Boethius: First of the Scholastics.” In Vernacular Traditions of Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae. Edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips. Research in Medieval Culture. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2016. 23-46.

Lerer, Seth. Boethius and Dialogue: Literary Method in the Consolation of Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Love, Rosalind C. “The Latin Commentaries on Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae from the 9th to the 11th Centuries.” In A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages. Edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 30. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 75-133.

Magee, John. “The Boethian Wheels of Fortune and Fate.” Medieval Studies 49 (1987): 524-33.

_____. “Boethius.” In The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, 2 volumes, edited by Lloyd P. Gerson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 788-812.

_____. “Boethius: Last of the Romans.” In Vernacular Traditions of Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae. Edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips. Research in Medieval Culture. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2016. 3-22.

_____. Boethius on Signification and Mind. Philosophia Antiqua 52. Leiden: Brill, 1989.

_____. “Boethius’ Consolatio and the Theme of Roman Liberty.” Phoenix 59 (2005): 348-364.

_____. “Boethius’ Philosophiae Consolatio: The Intersection of Literary Form and Philosophical Content.” In Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy: A Critical Guide. Ed. Michael Wiitala. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 12-31.

_____. “The Good and Morality: Consolatio 2-4.” In The Cambridge Companion to Boethius, edited by John Marenbon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 181-206.

_____. “On the Composition and Sources of Boethius’ Second Peri Hermeneias Commentary.” Vivarium 48 (2010): 7-54.

Marenbon, John. Boethius. Great Medieval Thinkers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

_____, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Boethius. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

_____. “Logic before 1100: The Latin Tradition.” In A Handbook of the History of Logic, volume 2: Medieval and Renaissance Logic, edited by Dov M. Gabbay and John Woods. Amsterdam and Heidelburg: North-Holland, 2008. 1-634, especially pp. 38-42.

Means, Michael. The Consolatio Genre in Medieval English Literature. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1972.

Masi, Michael, ed. Boethius and the Liberal Arts: A Collection of Essays. Utah Studies in Literature and Linguistics 18. Bern: Peter Lang, 1981.

_____. “Boethius, the Wife of Bath, and the Dialectic of Paradox.” In New Directions in Boethian Studies. Ed. Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., and Philip Edward Phillips. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007. 143-154.

McCluskey, Stephen. “Boethius’s Astronomy and Cosmology.” In A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 30. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 47-73.

McInerny, Ralph. Boethius and Aquinas. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1990.

McMullen, A. Joseph, and Erica Weaver, eds. The Legacy of Boethius in the Middle Ages: The Consolation and its Afterlives. Tempe, Arizona: ACMRS, 2018.

Minnis, Alastair J. Chaucer’s Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius. Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1993.

_____, ed. The Medieval Boethius: Studies in the Vernacular Translations of De Consolatione Philosophiae. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1987.

Moorhead, John. “Boethius and Romans in Ostrogothic Service.” Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 27 (1978): 604-12.

_____. “Boethius’ Life and the World of Late Antique Philosophy.” In The Cambridge Companion to Boethius, edited by John Marenbon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 13-33.

_____. Theoderic in Italy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.

Moreschini, Claudio. A Christian in Toga: Boethius: Interpreter of Antiquity and Christian Theologian. Beiträge zur Europäischen Religionsgeschichte (BERG) 3. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014.

_____. “Boethius’ Christianity in the Consolatio: A History of the Debate.” Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy: A Critical Guide. Ed. Mark Wiitala. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 68-81.

Moyer, Ann E. “The Quadrivium and the Decline of Boethian Influence.” In A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 30. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 479-517.

Nash-Marshall, Siobhan. “Boethius’s Influence on Theology and Metaphysics to c.1500.” In A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 30. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 163-191.

_____. Participation and the Good: A Study in Boethian Metaphysics. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2000.

Obertello, Luca. A.M. Severino Boezio. 2 vols. Genoa: Academia Ligure di Scienze e Lettere, 1974.

_____, ed. Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Studi Boeziani, Pavia, 5-8 ottobre 1980. Genoa: Academia Ligure di Scienze e Lettere, 1981.

O’Donnell, James J. The Ruin of the Roman Empire. New York: Ecco, 2008.

O’Daly, Gerard. The Poetry of Boethius. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Papahagi, Adrian. Boethiana Mediaevalia: A Collection of Studies on the Early Medieval Fortune of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy. Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2010.

Patch, Howard Rollin. “Fate in Boethius and the Neoplatonists.” Speculum 4 (1929): 62-72.

_____. The Goddess Fortuna in Medieval Literature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927.

_____. The Tradition of Boethius: A Study of His Importance in Medieval Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1935.

Phillips, Philip Edward. “Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae and the Lamentatio/Consolatio Tradition.” Medieval English Studies 9.2 (2001): 5-27.

_____. “Boethius, the Prisoner, and The Consolation of Philosophy.” In Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana, edited by Philip Edward Phillips. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 11-33.

_____. “Lady Philosophy’s Therapeutic Method: The ‘Gentler’ and the ‘Stronger’ Remedies in Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae.” Medieval English Studies 10.2 (2002): 5-26.

_____, ed. Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Radding, Charles M. “Fortune and Her Wheel: The Meaning of a Medieval Symbol.” Mediaevistik 5 (1992): 127-38.  Symbol.”

Rand, E. K. Founders of the Middle Ages. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1928; repr. New York, 1957.

Reiss, Edmund. Boethius. Twayne’s World Authors 672. Boston: Twayne, 1982.

Relihan, Joel C. The Prisoner’s Philosophy: Life and Death in Boethius’s Consolation. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.

Rimple, Mark T. “The Enduring Legacy of Boethian Harmony.” In A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 30. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 448-78.

Robinson, Phoebe. “Dead Boethius: Sixth-Century Accounts of a Future Martyr.” Viator 35 (2004): 1-19.

Scott, Jamie. Christians and Tyrants: The Prison Testimonies of Boethius, Thomas More, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. New York: Peter Lang, 1995.

Shanzer, Danuta. “The Death of Boethius and The Consolation of Philosophy.” Hermes (1984): 352-66.

Suto, Taki. Boethius on Mind, Grammar, and Logic: A Study of Boethius’ Commentaries on Peri Hermeneias. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

Speca, Anthony. Hypothetical Syllogistic and Stoic Logic. Philosophia Antiqua 87. Leiden: Brill, 2001.

Stewart, Hugh Fraser. Boethius: An Essay. Edinburgh: Blackwood and Sons, 1891.

Szarmach, Paul E. “Boethius’s Influence in Anglo-Saxon England: The Vernacular and the De Consolatione Philosophiae.” In A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 30. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 221-54.

Troncarelli, Fabio. “Boethius in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.” In A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 30. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 519-49.

_____. “Forbidden Memory: The Death of Boethius and the Conspiracy of Silence.” Mediaeval Studies 73 (2011): 183-205.

_____. Living Memory: Boethius, Cassiodorus, and the Consolation of Philosophy. Göttingen: Brill | V&R unipress, 2025.

_____. “New Words on Boethius.” Carmina Philosophiae: Journal of the International Boethius Society 23 (2014): 1-11.

_____. Painting in the Shadow: Hidden Writing and Images in Manuscripts and Portraits (Boethius, Cassiodorus, Justinian, Theodoro, Theodoric). Göttingen: Brill | V&R unipress, 2024.

_____. Tradizione perdute, La “Consolatio Philosophiae” nell’altomedioevo. Medioevo e Umanesimo 42. Padua: Antenore, 1981.

Twu, Krista Sue-Lo. “This is Comforting? Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy, Rhetoric, Dialectic, and unicum illud inter homines deumque commercium.” In New Directions in Boethian Studies. Ed. Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., and Philip Edward Phillips. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007. 33-49.

Stump, Eleonore. “Boethius’s Work on the Topics.” Vivarium 12 (1974): 77-93.

Uhlfelder, Myra L. The Consolation of Philosophy as Cosmic Image. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018.

Van de Meeren, Sophie. Lectures de Boèce: La Consolation de la Philosophie. Collection Didact Études anciennes. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012.

Wickham, Chris. The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages. New York: Viking, 2009.

Wiemer, Hans-Ulrich. Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans. Translated by John Noël Dillon. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023

Wiitala, Michael, ed. Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy: A Critical Guide. Cambridge Critical Guides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Wiltshire, Susan Ford. “Boethius and the Summum Bonum.” The Classical Journal 67 (1972): 216-20.

Zim, Rivkah, ed. Consolations of Writing: Literary Strategies of Resistance from Boethius to Primo Levi. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014.

 

Reference Articles

Johnson, Ian. “Boece, Boecius (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius).” Chaucer Encyclopedia. Edited by D. Newhauser, V. Gillespie, J. Rosenfeld, and K. Walter, K. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 231-232.

Magee, John. “Boethius.” In The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, 2 vols. edited by Lloyd Gerson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 2:788-812.

Marenbon, John. “Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta (2021). Available online and updated periodically: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2021/entries/boethius/.  

Stump, Eleonore. “Boethius.” In Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy, edited by Donald Zeyl, Daniel Devereux, and Phillip Mitsis. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. 114-17.

 

IBS Journal

Carmina Philosophiae: Journal of the International Boethius Society (ISSN 1075-4407). Official website of the journal: http://boethius.blogspot.com/p/carmina-philosophiae.html.

 

IBS Website

The International Boethius Society. Official website of the Society: http://boethius.blogspot.com.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHIES


Annotated Bibliographies

Recommended first-stop, high-level annotated bibliographies on Boethius, published online and updated periodically, include: 

“Boethius,” by John Marenbon. In Oxford Bibliographies Online in Classics. Edited by Dee L. Clayman. New York: Oxford University Press: 2015 (last modified 1/15/2015). DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195389661-0219.

 “Boethius,” by Philip Edward Phillips. In Oxford Bibliographies Online in Medieval Studies. Edited by Paul E. Szarmach. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017 (last modified 3/30/2017). DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396584-0222.

 

Non-annotated Bibliographies

Other highly recommended bibliographies of primary and secondary works that offer a more comprehensive range of sources in various languages include: 

Obertello, Luca. “Biografia boeziana. Bibliographia generale.” In Severino Boezio, Vol. 2. Genoa, 1974.

Gruber, Joachim. “Boethius 1925-1998.” In Lustrum 39 (1997): 307-83, 40 (1998): 199-259, and 52 (2010): 161-80.

Magee, John, and John Marenbon. “Appendix: Boethius’ Works.” In The Cambridge Companion to Boethius. Ed. John Marenbon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 303-39.

Doñas, Antonio. “Bibliographia Boethiana I.” In Memorabilia 13 (2011): 285-334; “Bibliographia Boethiana II.” In Memorabilia 14 (2012): 161-192.

Phillips, Philip Edward. “Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: A Chronology and Selected Annotated Bibliography.” In A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 551-589.

Galonnier, Alain, and Jean-Louis Charlet. “Bibliographie.” In Boèce. La Consolation de Philosophie. Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters, 2022. 475-535.

  

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