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Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Boethius: last of the Romans, first of the Scholastics. Boethius: last of the Romans / John Magee -- Boethius: first of the Scholastics / Peter King -- The Dutch, Italian, Polish, Greek, Hebrew, and Korean traditions. The Dutch translations of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae / Jefferey H. Taylor -- The reception and adaptation of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae in northern Italy: an unedited fourteenth-century version / Serena Lunardi -- Early Polish echoes and translations of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae / Władysław Witalisz -- Maximos Planudes and his ¹??? ¹????????? ??? ??????????: Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae translated into Greek / Leslie A. Taylor -- The Hebrew translations of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae / Marina l. Gorlach, Jefferey H. Taylor, and Leslie A. Taylor -- Korean translations of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae / Ji-soo Kang -- The German tradition. The German translations of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae: An inventory of translations with extracts from the texts / Christine Hehle and Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. -- The English tradition. The English tradition of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae: with a checklist of translations / Philip Edward Phillips -- Scribal interpretations of genre in the Old English Boethius / Jonathan Davis-Secord -- Authorial self-identification in the acrostics of Walton's Boethius and the question of John Bonejohn / Ian Johnson -- An edition of an English manuscript: Boethius's Comforts and consolations of philosophy by Henry Somerset, Duke of Beaufort (1693), British Library, MS Additional 40693b / Introduced and edited by Kenneth Hawley De consolatione philosophiae provides an overview of the widespread0reception0and0influence0of0Boethiuss masterpiece in England and Germany, as well as in the Low Countries, Italy, Poland, Catalonia, and Byzantium. As this volume demonstrates, Boethius0is0not0only0a0significant0Roman0author but0also0a0significant0translator0and0adapter0of works written originally in Greek on logic and the mathematical sciences, which places him firmly0as0an0important0figure0at0the0moment0of transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The two introductory articles in this collection demonstrate how well Boethius deserves his accolade as the last of the Romans and the first0of0the0Scholastics. The articles and the edition in this volume attest the0global0reach0of0Boethiuss0influence0today,0not only through the dissemination of his theological and scholarly works, but primarily through the many0vernacularizations0of0his0final0testament to the world, his Consolatio
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