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BOETHIUS
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BOETHIUS
His Influence on the European Unity of Culture:
from Alcuin of York (†804) to Thierry of Chartres (†1154)
• Illo Humphrey, Ph. D. •
• Mediævalist | Musicologist | Proto-Philologist | Concert-Baritone | 2012 •
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English Notice
This study, Boethius. His Influence on the European Unity of Culture: from Alcuin of York (†804) to Thierry of Chartres (†1154), of 237 pages, includes an Introduction with Bibliography, a Prologue, 12 chapters, an Epilogue, and 5 Appendices, namely: Bibliography, Manuscript Index, General Index-Glossary, Greek Index-Glossary, Index of the Descriptiones (Illustrations, Diagrams, Figures, Charts). Nota bene: The Illustrations include two glossaries of 9th century Boehtian glosses in tironian notes, i. e. Latin stenography [p. 15, p. 104], and one glossary of 9th century notae sententiarum, i. e. cross-reference signs [p. 108-110], which accompany the 9th century Boethian glosses.
A very timely publication, this new reference-textbook on Boethius stands out, in all respects, as a precise research and pedagogical tool for both laboratory and classroom. It is designed (a) to bring better into focus the role, which the life, works, glosses, commentaries, and the memory of Boethius played in the shaping of the European Unity of Culture, (b) to underline Boethius’ influence in the maintenance of wisdom and cognitive hygiene within the framework of civilization management and development, (c) to emphasize Boethius’ contribution to the birth of the Studia generalia, or the uniuersitas magistrorum atque scholarium uel discipulorum/discipularum, that is to say the mediæval university; (d) to show that the Boethian research, teachings, glosses, and commentaries, which guided science, philosophy, and ethics over the centuries, are still very cogent and relevant to all school curricula of the 21st century. Indeed, it must be remembered that the Boethian corpus (texte, glosses, commentaries) made up a major part of the basic research and teaching curricula for one of the most important cultural-humanitarian structures to which the mediæval urban society gave birth, that is to say the university itself, principal vector of the sevenfold canon of the Liberal Arts (Quadruvium: ars arithmetica• ars musica• ars geometrica• ars astronomica | Trivium: ars grammatica• ars dialectica-ars logica• ars rhetorica). To be sure, the Boethian output on the sevenfold canon of the liberal arts, completed by his five Opuscula sacra, his Consolatio Philosophiae, and their multiples glosses and commentaries, all furnished a rich intellectual, scientific-philosophical, and spiritual-ethical humus for the the newly conceived Studia generalia in Europe. Indeed, the nourishing effects of the said humus are still strongly felt, and indeed still strongly needed, in the schools and universities of today.
Boethius, then, as this historical and proto-philological research shows, was the ideal receptacle (ἡ ὑποδοχή, ἡ χώρα) for the transmission of the Tradition of Knowledge which preceded him, as of Plato (*ca. 428/427 – †ca. 348/347 BCE), as well as the ideal reservoir and source (τὸ ὑποδοχεῖον, ἡ κρήνη) from which drew abundantly Masters, pupils, and students who came after him, from Alcuin of York (†804) to Thierry of Chartres (†1154), and beyond. Boethius was therefore one of the key actors in the structuring of the European Unity of Culture, and his opera omnia became, as of the end of the 8th century so it seems, an indispensable companion to the new branch of the Carolingian scientific-philosophical Tradition of Knowledge, introduced on the Continent principally by Alcuin of York and his fellow scotti peregrini. The teachings of Boethius became the foundation of the subsequent curricula of the monastic and cathedral schools of the Carolingian and post-Carolingian periods. Thus, Boethius, the Man, the Philosopher, the Scientist, the Proto-Philologist, the Teacher, the Master, the Statesman, and Public Administrator, set before us a combination of very elevated standards of total education, science, philosophy, ethics, and general culture. By virtue then of his παιδεία, his humanitas, his eruditio institutioque in bonas artes, by virtue of his research and its outreach, by virtue of his teachings and pedagogy, his spirit, and elevated conduct, and finally by virtue of his total persona, Boethius comes to the forefront as being a powerful bridge between two civilisations in the realm of the scientific, philosophical, and ethical-moral Tradition of Knowledge. This composite Tradition of Knowledge became subsequently the basis of the new European Unity of Culture, and paved the way for the Studia generalia, or the Uniuersitas magistrorum atque scholarium uel discipulorum/discipularum, that is to say the primitive phases of the European university, born out of the mediæval urban society of the 11th 12th, and 13th centuries.
In this perspective, the European Unity of Culture is therefore greatly indebted to Boethius, to his research, his teachings, his pedagogy, his spirit, his elevated conduct, in short to his total persona. Therein lies the tangible and intangible legacy of Anicius Manlius [Torquatus] Severinus Boethius, the last great Platonic philosopher of Antiquity, born in Rome, circa a. D. 480, died in Pavia, circa a. D. 524.
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Nota bene:
This textbook on the Philosopher Boethius has been thoughtfully conceived and elaborated as a veritable research library in itself, permitting the users to understand clearly all the mentioned Boethian word-concepts, Greek and Latin vocabulary, technical terms, editorial terms, etc., without having to go outside the framework of the book itself. It is equipped with an extensive and up-to-date bibliography, databases and meta-databases on the works, glosses, commentaries, and tranlsations of the Boethian corpus, on the Prosopography and Hagiography of Boethius, on Boethius and the Liberal Arts, and on Boethian related research. It is also equipped with a complete Index-Glossary, namely: (a) the 112 principal primary sources [manuscripts] mentioned in the text, (b) a General Index, (c) a Greek Index, (d) an Index of the 14 Descriptiones [Charts, Diagrams, Illustrations, Figures].
Thus, this research, reference, and pedagogical textbook on Boethius is expressly designed for interdisciplinary laboratory and classroom use on the university level by professors, post-doctoral researchers, doctoral candidates, graduate and undergraduate students in the pluridisciplinary fields of the Liberal Arts: philosophy, theology, liturgy, ars arithmetica (philosophy of numbers and proportions), ars musica (philosophy of the formation of musical sounds and intervals), cognitio (philosophy of the cognitive process), proto-philology (“ecdotique”: fundamental research on authors, texts, manuscripts, manuscript genealogy [stemma], complete non-normative critical editions, including main texts with their punctuation, glosses-commentaries, and notae sentenciarum: cross-reference signs), literature, poetry, history, politics, public administration, education, origin of the Studia generalia (the primitive name of the mediaeval university), biblical studies, mediaeval studies, palaeography, codicology, prosopography, hagiography, chronology, and in the all important domaine of the wise management of happiness and suffering, which leads the soul and body to the summum bonum divinum humanumque (summit of the divine and human Goodness, Wisdom, and cognitive Hygiene), etc.; as well as by teachers, parents and students on the secondary high school level. It is also designed to participate modestly in the protection and safeguard of the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of humanity, and in the enrichment, on all levels, of General Culture, which is in itself a refuge value.
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• Illo Humphrey, Ph. D. •
• Mediaevalist | Musicologist | Proto-Philologist | Concert-Baritone | 2012 •
BOETHIUS
His Influence on the European Unity of Culture:
from Alcuin of York (†804) to Thierry of Chartres (†1154)
Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH | Nordhausen, Germany | September 2010
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Table of Contents
Abbreviations | Acronyms | Special Terms 6
Introduction 7
Latin Stenography |Critical Glossary |Bibliography 15
Bibliography:
• Boethii Opera omnia 16
• Boethii Prosopographia 21
• Boethii Hagiographia 28
Prologue :
Boethius. Powerful Bridge between Antiquity and the Middle Ages 41
Chapter 1 : Boethius and Alcuin of York 49
Chapter 2 : Boethius and Amalarius Symphosius Metensis 61
Chapter 3 : Boethius and Charles II “the Bald” 71
Chapter 4 : Boethius and Iohannes Scottus Eriugena 79
Chapter 5 : Boethius and the Cognitive Process (De musica I,1) 91
Chapter 6 : Boethius and Aurelianus Reomensis 113
Chapter 7 : Boethius and Hucbaldus Elnonensis 119
Chapter 8 : Boethii Consolatio Philosophiae 137
Chapter 9 : Boethius and Hrotsvitha Gandersheimensis 157
Chapter 10 :
(A) Boethius and Gerbertus Aureliacensis 167
(B) Boethius and Abbo Floriacensis 171
(C) Boethius and Notker Labeo seu Teutonicus 172
Chapter 11 : Boethius and Fulbertus Carnotensis 175
Chapter 12 : Boethius and Theodoricus Carnotensis 179
Epilogue : The Legacy of Boethius 187
Bibliography : Boethius and the Liberal Arts 195
Index (Manuscripts) : 219
Index (General) : 226
Index (Greek) : 232
Index (Descriptiones) : 234
Dedication : 235
Acknowledgments : 237
• Illo Humphrey, Ph. D. •
• Mediævalist | Musicologist | Proto-Philologist | Concert-Baritone | 2012 •
• Member of the International Boethius Society •
• Member of the Medieval Academy of America •
• Member of the ASDAL •
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BOETHIUS:
the Man, the Philosopher, the Scientist, his Work and its Outreach
Notice française | English Notice
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• Volume I (535 pages) ISBN 978-2-304-00564-6 :
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• Volume II (520 pages) ISBN 978-2-304-00566-0 :
http://www.manuscrit.com/Book.aspx?id=10178 •
aux
Éditions Le Manuscrit
(Recherche – Université)
Mars 2009 | March 2009
http://www.manuscrit.com/Blog_Auteur.aspx?id=6280
Sous la direction de
Illo Humphrey, Ph. D.
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Colloquia Aquitana II – 2006
Boèce
[Boethius]
Rome, ca. 480 – Pavie, ca. 524:
l’homme, le philosophe, le scientifique, son œuvre et son rayonnement
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• Boethius: the Man, the Philosopher, the Scientist, his Work and its Outreach •
• Boethius: der Mensch, der Philosoph, der Wissenschaftler,
sein Werk und seine Ausstrahlung •
• Boezio: l’uomo, il filosofo, lo scientifico, la sua opera ed il suo raggiamento •
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Notice française :
Boèce (Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius), était le fils de Narius Manlius Boethius vir clarissimus et inlustris ex praefecto praetorio praefecto urbi secundo consul ordinarius et patricius : †ca. 487 (A. F. Gori, Thesaurus, Vol. I, p. 182). Orphelin de bonne heure, il fut recueilli et adopté par le platonicien Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus († ca. 525) ; de ce dernier, il a reçu une parfaite humanitas ou eruditio institutioque in bonas artes (Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae XIII, 17) et devint à tous égards l’homme-université par excellence (ὅλως σοϕός), capable de conduire l’élève à partir de zéro de connaissances à une excellente gestion de la culture générale (ἐγκύκλιος παιδεία), y compris celle de l’éthique morale, depuis la substantia numeri jusqu’aux summa bona diuina humanaque. L‘œuvre de Boèce s’impose en effet comme modèle de recherches fondamentales et pédagogiques tant dans le domaine du processus cognitif que dans celui des sept disciplines canoniques des arts libéraux (ars arithmetica, ars musica, ars geometrica, ars astronomica, ars grammatica, ars dialectica, ars rhetorica).
Ayant légué à l’Occident, à son insu, la quintessence de la tradition du savoir scientifique-philosophique platonicienne, Boèce, l’un des puissants traits d’union entre l’Antiquité et le Moyen Âge, peut être considéré, à juste titre, comme le père de la pensée scientifique-philosophique en l’Occident médio-latin, et de ce fait figure de bon droit inter omnes priscae auctoritatis uiros (De institutione arithmetica I,1).
Les Colloquia Aquitana II – 2006, Boèce (Boethius, Rome, ca. 480 – Pavie, ca. 524) : l’homme, le philosophe, le scientifique, son œuvre et son rayonnement, organisés sous la direction de Illo Humphrey, Ph. D., ont eu lieu du 3 au 5 août 2006 au Château des Ducs de Duras (France – 47120). Cette rencontre constitue le quatrième colloque international consacré au platonicien Boèce, depuis celui d’Oxford, organisé en 1980 sous la direction de Margaret T. Gibson (Oxford, Basil Blackwell Press, 1981), celui de Pavie, organisé en 1980 sous la direction de Luca Obertello et Giovanni Scanavino (Rome, Editrice Herder, 1981), enfin, celui de Paris en 1999, organisé sous la direction de Alain Galonnier (Belgique, Peeters Publishers, 2003, Philosophes médiévaux 44). Les Colloquia Aquitana II – 2006, ayant réuni 15 chercheurs de haut niveau venant de France, d’Italie, d’Allemagne, des États-Unis, de la Syrie, de la Corée (Laurent Lemaître d’Artus, Clarence Barlow, Geneviève Brunel-Lobrichon, Fabien Delouvé, Philippe Duquénois, Guylène Hidrio, Min-Jun Huh, Illo Humphrey, Sultan Muhesen, Jean-Pierre Nicolini, Philip E. Phillips, Iégor Reznikoff, Ileana Tozzi, Ghislaine Vandensteendam, Édith Weber), proposent dans ses actes un ensemble d’études pluridisciplinaires sur : la philosophie des nombres et proportions (substantia numeri), la philosophie du processus cognitif (cognitio, perceptio sensuum), la philosophie éthique (summum bonum, pl. : summa bona), les 7 arts libéraux (artes liberales : quadruvium [quadrivium] et trivium), la logique (categoriae), la philosophie de l’image (ars iconographica), la musicologie, la proto-philologie grecque, latine, anglaise, occitane, la paléographie, la codicologie, l’héraldique, allant de Platon à Boèce, puis de Boèce à A. T. Beck (le père de la thérapie comportementale et cognitive moderne). Enfin, il faut signaler que les deux moments forts du colloque furent, d’une part, la création remarquable d’un Blason à l’hommage de Boèce par l’héraldiste Laurent Charles Lemaître Martin d’Artus, puis le concert exceptionnel donné par Professeur Iégor Reznikoff, intitulé Hymne à Boèce.
À la lumière des plus récentes recherches réalisées sur Boèce depuis 1999, d’une part, par les membres de l’International Boethius Society (USA) et la revue officielle de celle-ci Carmina Philosophiae http://www.mtsu.edu/~english2/Journals/boethius/ibs.html, et d’autre part en Europe, notamment par l’équipe de recherche de l’Université d’Oxford autour de l’Alfredian Boethius Project http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/boethius/, puis en France en Région d’Aquitaine par les membres-fondateurs et le nouveau Conseil scientifique de La B.I.R.E. (Bibliothèque Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Européenne de Duras), les Colloquia Aquitana II – 2006, conçus et élaborés sous l’égide de La B.I.R.E. et ses partenaires locaux et régionaux, continuent à avancer les recherches là où ces excellents colloques se sont arrêtés, et ce en élargissant toujours plus les perspectives chronologiques et scientifiques des études boétiennes.
Ce quatrième colloque sur Boèce a été organisé sous le haut patronage de la Ville de Duras, par le Musée Conservatoire du Parchemin et de l’Enluminure de Duras et par l’Association Vox Nova de Duras en collaboration avec ses partenaires locaux : le Château des Ducs de Duras, l’Office de Tourisme du Pays de Duras (dans le cadre des Journées médiévales annuelles du Pays de Duras et dans celui de l’Itinérance médiévale en vallée du Dropt), le Château de Monteton, le Lycée international de Tersac. Enfin, les Colloquia Aquitana II – 2006 ont pu avoir lieu grâce au soutien combiné du Conseil Général de Lot-et-Garonne, du Conseil Régional d’Aquitaine, de la DRAC d’Aquitaine, et de la Communauté de communes de Duras.
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http://www.manuscrit.com/Book.aspx?id=10178 •
Nota bene:
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Direction scientifique:
• Illo Humphrey, Ph. D. •
• Mediævalist | Musicologist | Proto-Philologist | Concert-Baritone | 2012 •
• Member of the International Boethius Society •
• Member of the Medieval Academy of America •
• Member of APEMUTAM •
• Member of the ADPC •
• Member of the ASDAL •
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Colloquia Aquitana II – 2006
Boèce
[Boethius] Rome, ca. 480 – Pavie, ca. 524:
l’homme, le philosophe, le scientifique, son œuvre et son rayonnement
Table des Matières
Préface :
Pr. Dr. Édith Weber,
Professeur émerite en Musicologie | Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne
Directrice-Fondatrice du Groupe de Recherches sur le Patrimoine musical 1450 – 1750 (GRPM)
Université Paris IV–Sorbonne
Volume I :
• 535 pages | ISBN 978-2-304-00564-6 :
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Humphrey (Illo) : Préliminaire I – Prologue, Vol. I, p. 9-12 •
Weber (Édith) : Préliminaire II – Préface, Vol. I, p. 13-20 •
Humphrey (Illo) : Préliminaire III – Introduction (Français), Vol. I, p. 21-28 •
Humphrey (Illo) : Préliminaire IV – Introduction (English), Vol. I, p. 29-36 •
Humphrey (Illo) : Préliminaire V – Einführung (Deutsch), Vol. I, p. 37-45 •
Boèce l’homme | Boethius The Man
Humphrey (Illo) : Préliminaire VI – Boèce : l’homme, la carrière, le destin, prosopographie, hagiographie, culte et vénération, Vol. I, p. 49-112 •
Humphrey (Illo) : Préliminaire VII – Dialogus entre Dame Philosophie et les intervenants. A propos de Boèce, Vol. I, p. 113-179 •
Boèce le philosophe | Boethius The Philosopher
Phillips (Philip Edward) : Chapitre 1 – Boèce, le quadrivium, et la consolation de la philosophie, Vol. I, p. 183-201 •
Hidrio (Guylène) : Chapitre 2 – Philosophie et Sagesse divine dans les premières enluminures du De Consolatione Philosophiae de Boèce (Xe-XIe siècles): une lecture chrétienne du traité de Boèce, Vol. I, p. 203-278 •
Humphrey (Illo) : Chapitre 3 – La Philosophie de l’image dans l’iconographie carolingienne (quelques observations sur la pratique iconographique en Neustrie au ixe siècle, l’exemple du scriptorium de Saint-Martin de Tours entre 830 et 851), Vol. I, p. 279-313 •
Brunel-Lobrichon (Geneviève) : Chapitre 4 – Boeci(s), le plus ancien texte de littérature en langue romane, inspiré de la Consolatio philosophiae de Boèce, Vol. I, p. 315-336 •
Tozzi (Ileana) : Chapitre 5 – L’eredità varroniana raccolta da Severino Boezio per il riordino delle Disciplinae liberales, Vol. I, p. 337-362 •
Min-Jun (Huh) : Chapitre 6 – Le premier commentaire de Boèce sur l’Isagoge de Porphyre : considérations générales, Vol. I, p. 363-381 •
Duquénois (Philippe) : Chapitre 7 – (Néo)Platonisme(s) et primitifs flamands : la possible source augustinienne, Vol. I, p. 383-437 •
Appendices du Volume I
Humphrey (Illo) : [Bibliographies] – Le quart d’heure d’actualité bibliographique, Vol. I, p. 441-494 •
Index-Glossaire général : [Manuscrits | Noms | Lieux | Grec | Figures] - Vol. I, p. 495-535 •
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Colloquia Aquitana II – 2006
Boèce
[Boethius] Rome, ca. 480 – Pavie, ca. 524:
l’homme, le philosophe, le scientifique, son œuvre et son rayonnement
Table des Matières
Volume II :
• 520 pages | ISBN 978-2-304-00566-0 :
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Boèce le scientifique | Boethius The Scientist
Delouvé (Fabien) : Chapitre 8 – Le neoplatonisme et la musique à la Renaissance : l’influence des traductions et commentaires de Platon par Marsile Ficin (1433-1499) sur les traités de Franchinus Gaffurius (1451-1522) et Pontus de Tyard (1521-1605), Vol. II, p. 9-104 •
Vandensteendam (Ghislaine) : Chapitre 9 – Le déplacement géographique des musiciens dans l’antiquité grecque, Vol. II, p. 105-169 •
Delouvé (Fabien) : Chapitre 10 – Sur l’évolution des termes de ton, de trope et de mode de Boèce (c. 480-524) à Salomon de Caus (c. 1576-1626), Vol. II, p. 171-232 •
Humphrey (Illo) : Chapitre 11 – Le Régime de l’Octave : ses applications chez Platon et chez Boèce d’après Nikómachos o Gerasinós, Vol. II, p. 233-260 •
Humphrey (Illo) : Chapitre 12 – Les 12 divisions de l’as : leur emploi chez Calcidius et chez Boèce, Vol. II, p. 261-274 •
Barlow (Clarence) : Chapitre 13 – On the Quantification of Harmony and Metre, Vol. II, p. 275-306 •
Nicolini (Jean-Pierre) : Chapitre 14 – Les schémas du manuscrit Bibliothèque municipale d’Avranches 237 : Boethii De institutione musica libri quinque Livre III, 10 et Livre III, 16, Vol. II, p. 307-323 •
Humphrey (Illo) : Chapitre 15 – 3 Études codicologiques : Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fonds grec : 1807 (IXe s.), 1853 (Xe, XIVe, XVe s.), 2466 (XIIe s.) contenant respectivement des œuvres de: Πλάτων (œuvres diverses) • Ἀριστοτέλις (œuvres diverses) • Εὐκλείδης Γέλας, τὰ Στοιχεῖα (Les Éléments), Vol. II, p.325-367 •
Humphrey (Illo) : Chapitre 16 – 2 Études codicologiques : Paris, BnF, Fonds latin 14064 (IXe s.), Fonds latin 7200 (IXe s.), manuscrits contenant respectivement les deux traités : Boethii De institutione arithmetica libri duo et Boethii De institutione musica libri quinque, Vol. II, p. 369-382 •
Artus (Laurent Charles Lemaître Martin d’) : Chapitre 17 – Un Blason proto-héraldique à l’hommage de Boèce l’homme, Boèce le philosophe, Boèce le scientifique, Vol. II, p. 383-406 •
Boèce et le processus cognitif | Boethius and the Cognitive Process
Humphrey (Illo) : Chapitre 18 – Quelques observations sur le processus cognitif chez Pláton et chez Boèce, Vol. II, p. 407-439 •
Reznikoff (Iégor) : Chapitre 19 – L’âme est-elle sonore ? Mythe ou réalité, Vol. II, p. 441-461 •
Hidrio (Guylène) : Chapitre 20 – Compte rendu du Concert Hymne à Boèce, Vol. II, p. 463-468 •
Humphrey (Illo) : Chapitre 21– Epilogue, Vol. II, p. 469-476 •
Appendices du Volume II
Conseil scientifique des Colloquia Aquitana – Vol. II, p. 479-482 •
Programme des trois journées des Colloquia Aquitana - Vol. II, p. 483-490 •
Index-Glossaire général [Manuscrits | Noms | Lieux | Grec | Figures] - Vol. II, p. 491-516 •
Remerciements - Vol. II, p. 519 •
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Colloquia Aquitana II – 2006
Boethius: the Man, the Philosopher, the Scientist, his Work and its Outreach
English Notice:
Boethius, (Rome, ca. 480 – Pavia, ca. 524), just as Plato thirty-three generations before him, was a universal philosopher, scientist, mathematician, musicologist, musician, geometrician, astronomer, grammarian, logician, rhetorician, proto-philologist, teacher, and theologian.
Being perfectly bilingual in Latin and Greek, Boethius translated from Greek to Latin several important works by Greek scientists and philosophers, and in so doing he became indeed the powerful bridge of knowledge between the Greco-Roman civilisation, which became known as “Antiquity” and the Post-Roman civilisation, which became known as the “Middle Ages”.
In addition to his scientific and proto-philological activities, Boethius was also a high-ranking politician, statesman, and public administrator, and became successively: Vir inluster Patricius (Patrician) in 507, Consul ordinarius (Consul) in 510, Vir Clarissimus (Senator) in 512, and Magister officiorum (Master of the Offices = Prime Minister) in 522 under the Ostrogothic rule of the western Roman Empire, i. e. under the Arian ruler Theodoric the Great (454-526).
Boethius left to posterity 21 pluridisciplinary major treatises on a wide rage of subjects: the liberal arts (mathematics, music, geometry [now lost], astronomy [now lost], logic), the cognitive process, etc., including his ultimate and best known treatise on the management of happiness and suffering, justice and injustice, spiritual-ethical-moral well-being (Latin: Sufficientia, Greek: ἡ αὐταρκεία), and, above all, on the supreme and divine Sovereign Good (Latin: Summum bonum, plural, Summa bona, Greek: τὸ ἀγαθόν, plural, τὰ ἀγαθά), entitled Consolatio Philosophiae (The Consolation of Philosophy).
Gifted with rare intelligence and pedagogical know-how, with high-level wisdom, high-level cognitive and intellectual hygiene, with profound spirituality and humanity, as well as with high-level ethical-moral values, Boethius was also a distinguished theologian having written five small treatises on Christian theology, which became known as the Opuscula sacra: (1) Quomodo Trinitas unus deus ac non tres dii• (2) Utrum Pater et Filius et Spiritus Sanctus de divinitate substantialiter• (3) Hebdomades [Quomodo substantiae in eo• quod sint• bonae sint cum non sint substantialia sint]• (4) De fide catholica• (5) Liber contra Eutychen et Nestorium.
This major collective work in 2 Volumes with respectively 535 + 520 pages, Acts of the Colloquia Aquitana II, held in Duras, France on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th of August, 2006, is published under the direction of Illo Humphrey, Ph. D., Mediævalist | Musicologist | Proto-Philologist, by the Éditions Le Manuscrit (http://www.manuscrit.com/Blog_Auteur.aspx?id=6280), and brings together 15 of the finest interdisciplinary specialists on Boethius who treat with mastery a broad rang of subjects, namely:
• Philosophy | ἡ παιδεία (general culture) | ἡ ἐγκύκλιος παιδεία (cycle of general studies) •
• Humanitas, eruditio institutioque in bonas artes •
(Quadruvium and Trivuum: the 7 liberal arts) •
• Art History | Theology | Mathematics (Regime of the Octave) •
• Musicology | Literature •
• Augustinus et Boethius | Philosophy of Carolingian iconography •
• decem Categoriae (decem Praedicamenta) | quinque voces •
• Consolatio Philosophiae (iconography) | Consolatio Philosophiae (summum bonum) •
• Consolatio Philosophiae (vernacular translations) •
• Proto-Philology •
• (« ecdotic« : text transmission | manuscript stemma | non-normative critical editions) •
• Prosopography (family and professional genealogy) •
• Hagiography (history of saints) •
• Palæography (history and study of old scripts) | Heraldry (study of Coats of Arms & Blazons) •
• Codicology | manuscript study:
Bnf, Fonds grec: 1807, 1853, 2466; Fonds latin: 14064, 7200, etc. •
• The Cognitive Process •
• Carmen philosophicum: Ad mensam philosophiae sitientes currite •
Nota bene :
This remarkable two-volume research on Boethius, in particular, and on Mediaeval Studies, in general,
admirably directed by Illo Humphrey and elegantly published by the Éditions Le Manuscrit,
is in itself a collector’s item.
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• Volume I (535 pages) ISBN 978-2-304-00564-6:
http://www.manuscrit.com/book.aspx?id=9415 •
• Volume II (520 pages) ISBN 978-2-304-00566-0:
http://www.manuscrit.com/Book.aspx?id=10178 •
Nota bene:
Scientific Director:
• Illo Humphrey, Ph. D. •
• Mediævalist | Musicologist | Proto-Philologist | Concert-Baritone | 2012 •
• Member of the International Boethius Society •
• Member of the Medieval Academy of America •
• Member of APEMUTAM •
• Member of the ADPC •
• Member of the ASDAL •
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