Un Dit moral contre Fortune
A critical edition of MS Paris, BnF, fr. 25 418
Edited by Glynnis M. Cropp in association with John Keith Atkinson
Click cover to enlarge Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Modern Humanities Research Association 31 August 2018 • 182pp ISBN: 978-1-781887-60-8 (paperback) • RRP £14.99, $19.99, €17.99 ISBN: 978-1-781887-61-5 (JSTOR ebook) ISBN: 978-1-781887-62-2 (EBSCO ebook) Sample: Google Books • Access online: Books@JSTOR The anonymous fifteenth-century French verse translation of Boethius’s Consolatio Philosophiae, contained in a single known manuscript, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 25418, fols 1–74r, is a revised and abridged version of the major French translation, Le Roman de Fortune et de Felicité, edited by Béatrice Atherton as her doctoral thesis for the University of Queensland (1994). The title of the present critical edition is derived from the opening strophe of the reviser’s Prologue: ‘Pour le Tout Poissant honnourer | … Contre Fortune … | Dez dis Böece vueil conter | C’om dit de Consolacion’, which indicates the Christian didactic purpose intended and expressed in moral lessons for living in this world. Consisting of Books I–IV only of the Consolatio, the text lacks the complex philosophical issues of Book V and throws into relief the dichotomy of Fortune and Felicity. Pruning of the mythological narratives, historical examples, and nature images by the reviser produced a somewhat lean abrégé of Boethius’s thought, but with Christian emphasis. With prudent editing, the translation constitutes a coherent whole and is recognised as one of the thirteen distinct medieval French translations of the Consolatio Philosophiae. Glynnis Cropp is Emeritus Professor of French at Massey University.
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Bibliography entry: Atkinson, Glynnis M. Cropp in association with John Keith (ed.), Un Dit moral contre Fortune: A critical edition of MS Paris, BnF, fr. 25 418, European Translations, 6 (MHRA, 2018) First footnote reference: 35 Un Dit moral contre Fortune: A critical edition of MS Paris, BnF, fr. 25 418, ed. by Glynnis M. Cropp in association with John Keith Atkinson, European Translations, 6 (MHRA, 2018), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Atkinson, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Atkinson, Glynnis M. Cropp in association with John Keith (ed.). 2018. Un Dit moral contre Fortune: A critical edition of MS Paris, BnF, fr. 25 418, European Translations, 6 (MHRA) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Atkinson 2018: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Atkinson 2018: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Un-Dit-moral-contre-Fortune www.mhra.org.uk/publications/et-6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
