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Conference Presentations by Rūta Šileikytė Zukienė
IV Ciclo di Studi Medievali: Atti del Convegno 4-5 giugno 2018 Firenze, 2018
The question addressed in the present paper—the treatment of human memory and recollection in the... more The question addressed in the present paper—the treatment of human memory and recollection in the Old English Boethius—exemplifies the demanding philosophical load encountered by the Anglo-Saxon translator in an unprecedented attempt to render and thus to respond to one of the finest works of late antiquity—Boethius’ De consolatione philosophiae. The Old English passages on memory investigated in terms of their immediate context and the underlying philosophical substratum reveal a number of philosophemes distinctly Neoplatonic in their origin. First, in the Old English Boethius, memory is based in the undisturbed part of the human mind, the idea akin to the Neoplatonic teaching of the compositional nature of the human soul, the highest level of which is impassible to the perturbations of the sensible world. Furthermore, following Plato’s teaching on recollection, memory in Alfred’s text is conceived of as a place wherein turns the human mind to discover wisdom and right understanding. While in Boethius the recollection of eternal principles determines the human ascent to the divine—a concept that originates in Plotinus’ teaching on the remembering soul’s identity with the object of its attention—in the Old English text, the late antique concept of memoria is rendered in Augustinian and Eriugenian terms as a way of human reditus to God and the dwelling place of Christ. Finally, a peculiar description of the divine nature in the final chapter of the Old English Boethius excludes memory from God’s attributes, which once again testifies to the underlying proximity of Neoplatonic thought that emphasized memory’s dependence on the perception of time and excluded it from the thinking mind of eternal beings.
by NUME Gruppo di Ricerca sul Medioevo Latino, Silvia Beltramo, Paola Novara, leonardo marchetti, Angelo Passuello, Davide Penna, Chiara Baldestein, Massimiliano David, Alessandro Melega, Stefano De Togni, Dino Lombardo, Chiara Ribolla, Federica Cosenza, Lorenzo Curatella, Alessandro Mortera, Jacopo Celani, Eleonora Rossetti, Davor Bulic, Giuseppe Maisola, Lester Lonardo, Elisa Orlando, Antonio Tagliente, Francesco Barbarulo, Gabriele Passabì, Stefano Santarelli, Roberta Napoletano, Irena Berovic, Alicja Bańczyk, Zsuzsanna Papp Reed, Angela Zaccara, Rūta Šileikytė Zukienė, Mauro Ferrante, Marianna Cuomo, Lucrezia Campagna, Beatrice Brancazi, Chiara Santini, Maria Paola Bulla, Antonello Vilella, Luca Salvatelli, Andrea Pergola, Andrea Pala, Michele Lacerenza, Eloy Bermejo Malumbres, Nicoletta Usai, Filippo Diara, Arianna Carannante, and Roberto Del Monte
Papers by Rūta Šileikytė Zukienė
Literatūra, 2007
The study explores the recurrent imagery of philosophical and intellectual contemplation in the O... more The study explores the recurrent imagery of philosophical and intellectual contemplation in the Old English translation of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy. Three aspects of the intellectual quest for the divine are considered in the paper: first, the doctrine of the inward turning to oneself in order to reach the divine; second, the idea of inwardness, or the inner space, which determines the scope of the cognitive activity of the soul; third, the notion of the human mind as the primary tool for the philosophical contemplation of the divine. The investigation of the backgrounds and contexts of the relevant passages of King Alfred’s Boethius allows to situate the ninth-century translation within a wider framework of early medieval Christian Neoplatonism, and to see the continuity in thought from the Enneadic scale of cognition to the imagery of spiritual flight in the Anglo-Saxon rendering of the Latin book.
Kalbotyra, 2004
The article discusses the Old English terminology for human cognition in King Alfred‘s translatio... more The article discusses the Old English terminology for human cognition in King Alfred‘s translation of Boethiusʼ Consolation of Philosophy. The Old English lexemes for human mind, soul, and intellect are investigated with respect to their immediate context in the vernacular, as well as the broader tradition of medieval Latin terminology that underpins the Anglo-Saxon rendering of the treatise. The study argues that although no exact relationship can be established between the vernacular and the corresponding Latin set of terms, the Old English rendering does succeed in conveying the essential structures of Boethius’ thought, thus transmitting Late Antique heritage to the ninth-century philosophical discourse of Anglo-Saxon England.
IV Ciclo di Studi Medievali: Atti del Convegno 4-5 giugno 2018 Firenze, 2018
The question addressed in the present paper—the treatment of human memory and recollection in the... more The question addressed in the present paper—the treatment of human memory and recollection in the Old English Boethius—exemplifies the demanding philosophical load encountered by the Anglo-Saxon translator in an unprecedented attempt to render and thus to respond to one of the finest works of late antiquity—Boethius’ De consolatione philosophiae. The Old English passages on memory investigated in terms of their immediate context and the underlying philosophical substratum reveal a number of philosophemes distinctly Neoplatonic in their origin. First, in the Old English Boethius, memory is based in the undisturbed part of the human mind, the idea akin to the Neoplatonic teaching of the compositional nature of the human soul, the highest level of which is impassible to the perturbations of the sensible world. Furthermore, following Plato’s teaching on recollection, memory in Alfred’s text is conceived of as a place wherein turns the human mind to discover wisdom and right understanding. While in Boethius the recollection of eternal principles determines the human ascent to the divine—a concept that originates in Plotinus’ teaching on the remembering soul’s identity with the object of its attention—in the Old English text, the late antique concept of memoria is rendered in Augustinian and Eriugenian terms as a way of human reditus to God and the dwelling place of Christ. Finally, a peculiar description of the divine nature in the final chapter of the Old English Boethius excludes memory from God’s attributes, which once again testifies to the underlying proximity of Neoplatonic thought that emphasized memory’s dependence on the perception of time and excluded it from the thinking mind of eternal beings.
by NUME Gruppo di Ricerca sul Medioevo Latino, Silvia Beltramo, Paola Novara, leonardo marchetti, Angelo Passuello, Davide Penna, Chiara Baldestein, Massimiliano David, Alessandro Melega, Stefano De Togni, Dino Lombardo, Chiara Ribolla, Federica Cosenza, Lorenzo Curatella, Alessandro Mortera, Jacopo Celani, Eleonora Rossetti, Davor Bulic, Giuseppe Maisola, Lester Lonardo, Elisa Orlando, Antonio Tagliente, Francesco Barbarulo, Gabriele Passabì, Stefano Santarelli, Roberta Napoletano, Irena Berovic, Alicja Bańczyk, Zsuzsanna Papp Reed, Angela Zaccara, Rūta Šileikytė Zukienė, Mauro Ferrante, Marianna Cuomo, Lucrezia Campagna, Beatrice Brancazi, Chiara Santini, Maria Paola Bulla, Antonello Vilella, Luca Salvatelli, Andrea Pergola, Andrea Pala, Michele Lacerenza, Eloy Bermejo Malumbres, Nicoletta Usai, Filippo Diara, Arianna Carannante, and Roberto Del Monte
Literatūra, 2007
The study explores the recurrent imagery of philosophical and intellectual contemplation in the O... more The study explores the recurrent imagery of philosophical and intellectual contemplation in the Old English translation of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy. Three aspects of the intellectual quest for the divine are considered in the paper: first, the doctrine of the inward turning to oneself in order to reach the divine; second, the idea of inwardness, or the inner space, which determines the scope of the cognitive activity of the soul; third, the notion of the human mind as the primary tool for the philosophical contemplation of the divine. The investigation of the backgrounds and contexts of the relevant passages of King Alfred’s Boethius allows to situate the ninth-century translation within a wider framework of early medieval Christian Neoplatonism, and to see the continuity in thought from the Enneadic scale of cognition to the imagery of spiritual flight in the Anglo-Saxon rendering of the Latin book.
Kalbotyra, 2004
The article discusses the Old English terminology for human cognition in King Alfred‘s translatio... more The article discusses the Old English terminology for human cognition in King Alfred‘s translation of Boethiusʼ Consolation of Philosophy. The Old English lexemes for human mind, soul, and intellect are investigated with respect to their immediate context in the vernacular, as well as the broader tradition of medieval Latin terminology that underpins the Anglo-Saxon rendering of the treatise. The study argues that although no exact relationship can be established between the vernacular and the corresponding Latin set of terms, the Old English rendering does succeed in conveying the essential structures of Boethius’ thought, thus transmitting Late Antique heritage to the ninth-century philosophical discourse of Anglo-Saxon England.