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
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Chadwick,
Henry. Boethius: The Consolations of Music, Logic,
Theology, and Philosophy Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.
_____. “Theta on
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175-79.
Chamberlain,
David S. “Philosophy of Music in the Consolatio of
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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.
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Courcelle, Pierre. La Consolation de
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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.
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Curley, T. F. “The
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_____. “How to
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(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
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_____. “Boethiana
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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
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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,
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Donato, Antonio.
“Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy and the Greco-Roman
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_____. 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
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Dwyer, Richard
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Ebbesen, Sten.
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The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence, edited by Richard Sorabji.
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Economou,
George. The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature. Cambridge,
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Elliott,
Elizabeth. Remembering Boethius: Writing Aristocratic Identity in Late
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Foehr-Janssens,
Yasmina, and Emmanuelle Métry, eds. La fortune: Thèmes, représentations, discours. Geneva: Librairie
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Fortin, John R.
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Frakes, Jerold
C. The Fate of Fortune in the Early Middle Ages: The Boethian Tradition.
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Fuhrmann,
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Galonnier, Alain. Anecdoton Holderi ou
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des Opuscula Sacra. Preface by Fabio Troncarelli. Philosophes Médiévaux 35.
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_____, ed. Boèce ou la chaîne des
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Gibson, Margaret,
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Glei, Reinhold F,
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Green-Pedersen,
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Gruber,
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Gualtieri,
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Guillaumin,
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“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
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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.
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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