Forging Boethius in Medieval Intellectual Fantasies

Forging Boethius reconsiders the influence of the thirteenth-century Pseudo-Boethian forgery De disciplina scolarium on medieval understandings of Boethius, using a a variety of different works including texts of translatio studii et imperii, the poetry of Chaucer, and humanist writings.

Brooke Hunter is Assistant Professor of English at Villanova University, USA.

Introduction: De disciplina scolarium and the Boethian Corpus Chapter One: Reproduction and Philosophical Life in the Consolatio Philosophiae Chapter Two: De disciplina and Translatio Studii Chapter Three: Boethian Humor Chapter Four: 'Bitwixen game and ernest': Contrary Boethianism in Troilus and Criseyde Chapter Five: Boethius and the Humanists: Valla, Badius, and Persistence of De disciplina in Print References Index