The study of Boethius’s medieval reception has enjoyed a resurgence of interest in recent years, with the publication of new editions, translations, databases, and research reshaping our understanding of his profound influence. This study offers the first holistic survey of the reworkings of the
Consolation
in medieval England, surveying the Old English
Boethius
together with Chaucer’s
Boece
and a host of understudied interlocutors for the first time in a volume of this kind. Arranged into sections on “earlier” and “later” periods,
The Legacy of Boethius
argues for a reassessment of the medieval English Boethian tradition as a 600-year continuum in vernacular reading and readership.