Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius Knihy

Unjustly imprisoned and waiting to die, Boethius penned his last and greatest work, Consolation of Philosophy, an imaginary dialogue between himself and Philosophy, personified as a woman. Reminiscent of Dante in places, Boethius's fiction is an ode-to-philosophy-cum-Socratic-dialogue. Joel Relihan's skillful rendering, smoother to the modern ear than previous translations, preserves the book's heart-rending clarity and Boethius's knack for getting it just right. Listen to him on fortune: "We spin in an ever-turning circle, and it is our delight to change the bottom for the top and the top for the bottom. You may climb up if you wish, but on this condition: Don't think it an injustice when the rules of the game require you to go back down."Consolation of Philosophy recalls the transience of the material world, the eternality of wisdom, and the life of the philosopher. Boethius was deeply influenced by the Platonist tradition, and this piece is one of the more powerful and artful defenses of a detachment that feels almost Buddhist. For anyone who's felt at odds with the world, Consolation is a reminder that the best things in life are eternal. Boethius must be right: the book is just as meaningful today as it was in the sixth century when he wrote it. --Eric de Place

De institutione musica (O základech hudby) Anicia Manlia Torquata Severina Boethia (cca 480–524) je se svými více než sto šedesáti rukopisnými výskyty suverénně nejrozšířenější hudebně-teoretickou prací evropského středověku. Dosud byla českým čtenářům přístupná pouze coby krátký úryvek ve výboru Boethius – Poslední Říman(1981). Zájemci o hlubší studium Boethiova traktátu tak byli odkázáni buď na latinský originál, nebo na překlady do němčiny, angličtiny, italštiny či francouzštiny. Kniha, kterou nyní držíte v rukou, je tedy první kompletní překlad do českého jazyka. Její základ tvoří text dr. Antonína Burdy (1902–1982), jejž ovšem radikálně přepracoval a upravil dr. Michal Ctibor (*1990). Současně také přibyla nová předmluva, poznámkový aparát a výkladový slovníček nejdůležitějších pojmů. Bližší seznámení s Boethiovým textem je užitečné ze dvou hlavních pohledů. Jednak představuje shrnutí antické hudební teorie, ale také umožňuje hlouběji nahlédnout do disciplíny zvané musica, která tvořila pevnou součást výuky kvadrivia na artistických (filozofických) fakultách, mnohde až na práh novověku. A právě tento aspekt by mohl být pro většinu čtenářů novým a překvapivým.

In Ciceronis Topica and De topicis differentiis are Boethius's two treatises on Topics (loci). Together these two works present Boethius's theory of the art of discovering arguments, a...

Although Chaucer’s 'Boece' has been edited many times, this is the first edition to offer not only a critical text but also collations with all extant medieval and late-medieval authorities and also with the modern critical editorial tradition. It thus presents both a reconstructed text and the materials from which that reconstruction was made. Beyond that, this edition offers a complete survey of the traditions of interpretive scholarship, literary as well as textual. If Chaucer’s 'Boece' does not offer an entirely new work to scholars of Middle English, it presents a familiar one in an entirely new fashion that is designed to enhance appreciation of how much works like the 'Boece' can reveal about medieval translation and manuscript transmission as well as about Chaucer as a writer.

Selected works of Boethius including "Consolation of Philosophy" and "The Trinity is One God Not Three Gods".

Selected works of Boethius including "Consolation of Philosophy" and "The Trinity is One God Not Three Gods".

Boethius was a philosopher and theologian of the 6th century AD. In this collection of theological essays, he explores concepts such as the nature of God, the relationship between faith and reason, and the problem of evil. This book offers a fascinating glimpse into the intellectual world of late antiquity.