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. 

Carmina Philosophiae: The Journal of the International Boethius Society

Volumes 28 & 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 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. 

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.

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.

Boethius at Kalamazoo - 2019

54th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Kalamazoo, Michigan - May 9-12, 2019

TEACHING BOETHIUS AND CHAUCER

Sponsored by The International Boethius Society

Organized by Philip Edward Phillips, Middle Tennessee State University

Chaired by Anthony G. Cirilla, College of the Ozarks

Chaucer, Boethius, and Euclid

Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., Troy University

Teaching Platonic Poetics in Boethius and Chaucer

Matthew Brumit, University of Mary

Chaucer’s Boethian Neoplatonism

John M. Hill, U. S. Naval Academy

Respondent

Kenneth Hawley, Lubbock Christian University

The session will be followed by our annual business meeting and wine reception. 

MLA 2019 Call for Papers

The Persistence of Boethius II

Allied Organization: International Boethius Society

Boethius's influence continued well beyond the late Classical and medieval periods. This session explores the persistence of Boethian ideas in the centuries since his death. 300-word Abstract by Friday, 23 March 2018; Leslie Agnes Taylor (leslie.taylor801@gmail.com).

https://www.mla.org/Convention/MLA-2019

Boethius in Kalamazoo

2018 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS

The Congress Committee for the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 10-13, 2018) has approved a session to be sponsored by the International Boethius Society:

Teaching Boethius (A Roundtable)

Sponsoring Organization: International Boethius Society
Organizer: Philip Edward Phillips (Middle Tennessee SU)
Presider: Philip Edward Phillips (Middle Tennessee SU)

Anthony G. Cirilla (Niagara University), Boethius and a Pedagogy of Imagination

Sarah Powrie (St Thomas More College), Boethius and the Biology of Desire

Brandy N. Brown (Rhodes College), Teaching The Consolation of Philosophy in Prison

Kenneth C. Hawley (Lubbock Christian University), The Consolation of Philosophy for Honors Freshmen

Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. (Troy University), Intellectual Relevance of Boethian Studies in the First Quarter of the 21st Century

Brian McFadden (Texas Tech University), Tolkien and Boethius: Chance Meetings and Doomed Heroes

2017 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS

The International Boethius Society sponsored 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 to all on a wonderful session!

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

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

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