IBS Journal





Volume 28 (2019)


EDITION & TRANSLATION

The Preface to The Comforts & Consolations of Philosophy
Henry Somerset, Duke of Beaufort, 1693
KENNETH C. HAWLEY

    Introduction

    The Life of Boethius by Petrus Bertius (1671 Edition) and
    Henry Somerset's English Rendering (1693 Translation)






ESSAYS 

Orpheus Renewed: Abdication and Poetic Realization of 
Boethian Admonition in Sir Orfeo
MICHAEL DAVID ELAM

The Philosopher's Vision: Experiencing the Consolatio Philosophiae 
in Henry Vaughan's Silex Scintillans and Thalia Rediviva
JONATHAN NAUMAN

"Piis Te Cernere Finis": Lady Philosophy in the Tradition of Biblical Wisdom 
JIEON KIM


REVIEWS

The Legacy of Boethius in Medieval England: The Consolation and its Afterlives
Ed. A. Joseph McMullen and Erica Weaver
DAVID PEDERSEN

Chaucer's Neoplatonism: Varieties of Love, Friendship, and Community
by John M. Hill
M. W. BRUMIT

The Influence of Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiae on John Milton's 
Paradise Lost, by Jeffrey H. Taylor and Leslie A. Taylor
ETHAN SMILIE




Volumes 26 & 27 (2017/2018)

Special Double Issue


INTRODUCTION

Geoffrey Chaucer's Boece Rendered into Modern English
TOM POWERS

TRANSLATION 

Geoffrey Chaucer's Boece Rendered into Modern English
(Facing Page: 1868 Edition - Translation)
TOM POWERS





REVIEWS

The Consolation of Philosophy as Cosmic Image, by Myra L. Uhlfelder
M. W. BRUMIT

The Consolation of Philosophy as Poetic Liturgy, by Stephen Blackwood
MEGAN MURTON

Remaking Boethius: The English Language Translation Tradition of The Consolation of Philosophy, Ed. Brian Donaghey, Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., Philip Edward Phillips, and Paul Szarmach

ANTHONY G. CIRILLA



Volume 25 (2016)


ESSAYS

Boethius and Chaucer: The Consolations of “Trouthe”
MEGAN MURTON

Imagining the University: Boethian translatio studii in
De disciplina scolarium
BROOKE HUNTER

Valentin Weigel and Boethius: Mystical-Philosophical
Concepts in Late Sixteenth-Century Protestant Thinking
ALBRECHT CLASSEN





EDITION

The Meters of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae, Rendered
into English Verse in 1664 by Nicholas Bacon and John Hobart
NOEL HAROLD KAYLOR, JR., NICHOLAS GAGE ELLIS,
and WILLIAM BOYD BLACKMON


REVIEWS

Vernacular Traditions of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae,
Edited by Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Philips
ANTHONY G. CIRILLA

Substantivkomposita und Sinngebung im Kontext frümittelalterlicher Wissensvermittlung: Eine kulturanalytisch-linguistische Untersuchung
zur Wortbildung bei Notker III
, by Nicolaus Janos Raag
NOEL HAROLD KAYLOR, JR.

TRANSLATION


Boethius on Love: Book II, Meter 8

ANTHONY G. CIRILLA



Volume 24 (2015)

Sir Harry Coningsbye’s Translation of The Consolation of Philosophy (1664) 

Shortly after his all-verse translation of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy was printed for personal use and private distribution in 1664, Sir Harry Coningsbye picked up one of the few volumes and penned a note inside its front pages. He wrote it to Sir Thomas Hyde, son of the recently deceased Sir Nicholas Hyde, to whom a reluctant and bankrupt Harry had in 1658 sold the Coningsbye family estate in North Mimms, Hertfordshire. So it was in 1665 that Coningsbye presented young Hyde with this inscribed copy of his translation of Boethius: “finding my selfe lost as to the splendour of my family, I thought my selfe bound in vindication of my selfe to deriue for posterity the tru cause of its fatal ruine.” While this note foregrounds the text and its biographical preface as a kind of “vindication,” the translation process itself was undertaken as a source of personal comfort for Coningsbye, who, as he says, “for my owne alleuiation pleased my selfe with englishing this Consolatory.” The work is also a tribute, though, as he has “prefixed the tru, sad, yet glorious & honest deportment of my most deare father.” It is important to Coningsbye for Sir Thomas Hyde to know about Sir Thomas Coningsbye, the former master of North Mimms—for Hyde to know that the house that he inherited from his own father had once belonged to a good man whose subsequent downfall and eventual death were both tragic and unjust. He makes a request, then, of the new master of the estate: “for that your house was once his, and his forefathers, allow this Little booke, a little roome in it, that it may there remaine as a record of the honest mind” not of Boethius, but of his beloved father, Sir Thomas Coningsbye. While the poetic Consolation he produced may have offered “alleuiation,” then, it was the inscription and introductory essay on his father’s demise that promised “vindication.” (From the Introduction to the Edition)


INTRODUCTION

“the tru cause of its fatal ruine”: The Consolation of Sir Harry Coningsbye’s Poetic Translation
KENNETH C. HAWLEY    


EDITION

Sir Harry Coningsbye’s Translation of The Consolation of Philosophy (1664)
KENNETH C. HAWLEY    





Volume 23 (2014)

Special Issue

Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Phillips, Editors



The Medieval Legacy of Boethius on the Continent

A. Joseph McMullen and Erica Weaver, Guest Editors

featuring papers from “Revisiting the Legacy of Boethius in the Middle Ages,” hosted by Harvard University in partnership with the International Boethius Society, March 13-15, 2014.


ESSAYS

New Words on Boethius
FABIO TRONCARELLI                                                                     

Series rerum: The Use and Transformation of Boethian Thought in Bernard Silvestris
JASON M. BAXTER                                                                            

The Fortune of Boethius’s Concept of Eternity in the Scholastic Debate
MARGHERITA BELLI                                                                        

Boethius at Harvard: Manuscripts and Printed Books from the Houghton Library, 1200–1800
A. JOSEPH MCMULLEN AND ERICA WEAVER                              


REVIEWS

Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana, Edited by Philip Edward Phillips
KRISTA SUE-LO TWU AND KATIE OWENS-MURPHY                   

Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy as a Product of Late Antiquity by Antonio Donato
ANTHONY CIRILLA                                                                                

Practicing Literary Theory in the Late Middle Ages: Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve by Eleanor Johnson
ERICA WEAVER                                                                                

Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy. With an Introduction and Contemporary Criticism, Translated by Scott Goins and Barbara H. Wyman
PHILIP EDWARD PHILLIPS      
                                                         


About Carmina Philosophiae

The International Boethius Society publishes an annual, peer-reviewed journal, Carmina Philosophiae, edited by Kenneth C. Hawley, Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., and Anthony G. Cirilla. This interdisciplinary journal is devoted to the study of Boethius, his age, and his influence, and it solicits full-length articles, review essays, and book reviews for upcoming issues. As of 2018, all of our back issues are all available via the JSTOR and EBSCO databases.


Submissions to the Journal

Essay topics may include subjects such as Boethius’s place within the classical tradition, the history and politics of the late Roman Empire, the early Byzantine Empire, and the Ostrogothic Kingdom, and the reception and influence of Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy and other writings in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Manuscript editions of Boethius’s works are also invited. Those interested in writing review articles or book reviews for the journal should contact the editors for a list of books received. All articles are bibliographically indexed in the MLA Bibliography and the International Medieval Bibliography.

Submit two copies of each essay (20-35 pages in length and conforming to the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed.): one complete and another anonymous. Hard copies are welcome (address below), but e-mailed attachments are preferred. The final revision of an accepted article should be submitted electronically in Word as a .doc file.

Contact Information

Submissions to, subscription requests for, and editorial inquiries about Carmina Philosophiae should be directed to
Kenneth C. Hawley, Editor
Carmina Philosophiae
Department of Humanities
Lubbock Christian University
5601 19th Street
Lubbock, TX 79407