International Boethius Society
Promoting Scholarship on the Work, Influence, and Age of Boethius
Thursday, May 18, 2023
57th International Congress on Medieval Studies (2022)
The Alfredian or Old English Boethius: Authority, Authorship, and Influence - In Memory of Paul E. Szarmach
Sponsoring Organization: International Boethius Society
Organizer: Philip Edward Phillips (Middle Tennessee State University)
Presider: Rhonda L. McDaniel (Middle Tennessee State University)
Ruta Sileikyte Zukiene (Vilniaus University/Vytauto Didžiojo University), The Authority of Reason in the Old English Boethius
Kenneth C. Hawley (Lubbock Christian University), The Power and Personality of the Eternal God in the Alfredian Boethius
We had a wonderful Zoom session again this year and enjoyed a lively and interesting discussion with our attendees after the presentations. We are grateful for the support staff who made this remote gathering possible.
Saturday, August 14, 2021
Call for Papers - 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies
57th International Congress at Kalamazoo
Online, May 9-14, 2022
Call for Papers
The Alfredian or Old English Boethius:
Authority, Authorship, and Influence in Memory of Paul E. Szarmach
Contact Person: Philip Phillips philip.phillips@mtsu.edu
Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Boethius Society
Proposals for twenty-minute papers addressing the issues of "authority" or "authorship" in respect to the Alfredian or Old English Boethius and/or the subsequent reception or influence of the work are invited for presentation in a session dedicated to the memory of Paul E. Szarmach.
Deadline for New Submissions: Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
2021 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES
The Literary & Philosophical Influence of Boethius in the Middle Ages
Sponsoring Organization: International Boethius Society
Organizer: Philip Edward Phillips (Middle Tennessee State University)
Presider: Kenneth C. Hawley (Lubbock Christian University)
Clelia Vittoria Crialesi (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies), Exigetical and Philosophical Uses of Boethius’s De arithmetica in the Carolingian Age: Rabanus Maurus and John Scotus Eriugena on Sap. 11:21
David Sharp (Carleton University), Boethian Counsel and Richard the II’s Minority in Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls
Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. (International Boethius Society), Teaching the Consolation of Philosophy in the Context of World Literature
We are grateful to the Medieval Institute and to their support staff for making this unusual format work so well. We had a stimulating set of presentations and an engaging discussion following. Although we missed our gathering in Kalamazoo, we enjoyed connecting with those from across the globe who joined our session panelists, who happened to log on from Ontario (David), Texas (Kenneth), Montana (Harold), France (Clelia), Tennessee (Philip), and Michigan (IT Support).
Below are 2 screenshots of our Zoom session--the first featuring our presenters and session leaders during the pre-session preparation and the second showing our panel audience.
Friday, July 10, 2020
Carmina Philosophiae: The Journal of the International Boethius Society

Volumes 28 & 27 (2017/2018)
Special Double Issue
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
(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 28 (2019) COMING SUMMER 2021! **
Remaking Boethius: The English Language Translation Tradition of The Consolation of Philosophy
Edited by Brian Donaghey, Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr,. Philip Edward Phillips, and Paul E. Szarmach, with assistance from Kenneth C. Hawley
Brepols and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies published this reference work in 2019. It accounts for every English version of Boethius’s 6th-century Latin original, including not only the 24 complete translations from the 9th century to the 21st, but also 24 partial translations and a number of other spurious, mislabeled, or lost versions. The cover image on the book is from a 1695 translation in the collection held by the Brian S. Donaghey Center for Boethian Studies. Remaking Boethius is a testament to the late Professor Donaghey's tireless service to the International Boethius Society.
For more on this volume, please see http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503584676-1.
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
JSTOR Database
Carmina Philosophiae on JSTOR
Volumes 1-23 of Carmina are now available in full-text via the JSTOR database. Please find them using the resources in your university's library or by exploring the journal home page for the International Boethius Society: https://www.jstor.org/journal/carmphil.
Volumes 1-23 of Carmina are now available in full-text via the JSTOR database. Please find them using the resources in your university's library or by exploring the journal home page for the International Boethius Society: https://www.jstor.org/journal/carmphil.
Carmina Philosophiae is among approximately 20 journals that are part of the
collection’s Medieval Authors & Texts theme. If
your university does not already have a relationship with JSTOR, we encourage
you to try a free trial for individuals.
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