IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1038: Alfredian Voices, I: New Readings of the Alfredian Boethius and Soliloquies
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
Organiser: | Amy Faulkner, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
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Moderator/Chair: | Amy Faulkner, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
Paper 1038-a | The Prose Preface to the Old English Boethius and Æthelwold's Revolt (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1038-b | Creative Prayer in the Old English Boethius and Soliloquies (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Theology |
Paper 1038-c | The Alfredian Connection: Networks of Meaning in the Metres of Boethius and the Old English Poetics of Lament (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin |
Abstract | This session offers three new readings of the Old English translations of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae and Augustine's Soliloquia, works traditionally attributed to Alfred the Great. Papers in this session will situate these Alfredian philosophical dialogues in their literary, historical and political contexts, considering their place in the wider networks of royal succession, theology, and other literary genres. These new readings will draw on the main texts of the translations, the poetic portions of the Boethius, along with prefatory material. |