Nicole Guenther Discenza
Biographic Data
| ID | 1648720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Guenther Discenza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole Guenther |
| FAMILY NAME | Discenza |
| SIGNATURE | DISCENZA N G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5213-3687 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Alfredian Prologues and Epilogues
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Author Recommends : Walter John Sedgefield rendered the Boethius in a modern English translation, King Alfred’s Version of the Consolations of Boethius. Done into Modern English, with an Introduction (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900) for students who cannot read Old English and to supplement selected passages in the Old English for advanced students. Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge’s translation Alfred the Great: Asser’s Life of King Alfred and Ot…
Alfred the Great’s Boethius 1
Alfred the Great’s translation of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy into the Old English Boethius is notable both for its richness and for its difficulties. After briefly introducing Boethius and his greatest text, this essay will turn to the OE Boethius and its problems, which include questions about authorship and poor editions. Soon, however, a new electronic and a new print edition will help scholars better see what medieval audiences read…
The Old English Bede and the construction of Anglo-Saxon authority
The translator of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica faced a daunting task. His source text had behind it the authority of a well-known, learned English saint, and a translation of the work would inevitably be a step removed from that saint. How could the translator convince the audience that his translation possessed authority? Alfred's prefaces to his translations and Wærferth's preface to the Dialogues gain the confidence of the readers or hearers …
Wealth and Wisdom
Wealth and Wisdom
Power, skill and virtue in the Old English Boethius
In Alfred's famous Preface to his translation of the Regula pastoralis , the king writes that he translated ‘hwilum word be worde, hwilum andgit of andgiete’ (7.19–20); a similar phrase occurs in the proem to the Boethius (1.2–3). Yet words in different languages are rarely exact equivalents. Translators select words which they feel capture the primary sense of source words and match secondary meanings and connotations only if they can. Similarit…
Wealth and Wisdom
Wealth and Wisdom
Power, skill and virtue in the Old English Boethius
In Alfred's famous Preface to his translation of the Regula pastoralis , the king writes that he translated ‘hwilum word be worde, hwilum andgit of andgiete’ (7.19–20); a similar phrase occurs in the proem to the Boethius (1.2–3). Yet words in different languages are rarely exact equivalents. Translators select words which they feel capture the primary sense of source words and match secondary meanings and connotations only if they can. Similarit…
Power, skill and virtue in the Old English Boethius
In Alfred's famous Preface to his translation of the Regula pastoralis , the king writes that he translated ‘hwilum word be worde, hwilum andgit of andgiete’ (7.19–20); a similar phrase occurs in the proem to the Boethius (1.2–3). Yet words in different languages are rarely exact equivalents. Translators select words which they feel capture the primary sense of source words and match secondary meanings and connotations only if they can. Similarit…
Wealth and Wisdom
Wealth and Wisdom
The Old English Bede and the construction of Anglo-Saxon authority
The translator of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica faced a daunting task. His source text had behind it the authority of a well-known, learned English saint, and a translation of the work would inevitably be a step removed from that saint. How could the translator convince the audience that his translation possessed authority? Alfred's prefaces to his translations and Wærferth's preface to the Dialogues gain the confidence of the readers or hearers …
Alfred the Great’s Boethius 1
Alfred the Great’s translation of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy into the Old English Boethius is notable both for its richness and for its difficulties. After briefly introducing Boethius and his greatest text, this essay will turn to the OE Boethius and its problems, which include questions about authorship and poor editions. Soon, however, a new electronic and a new print edition will help scholars better see what medieval audiences read…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Author Recommends : Walter John Sedgefield rendered the Boethius in a modern English translation, King Alfred’s Version of the Consolations of Boethius. Done into Modern English, with an Introduction (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900) for students who cannot read Old English and to supplement selected passages in the Old English for advanced students. Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge’s translation Alfred the Great: Asser’s Life of King Alfred and Ot…
Alfredian Prologues and Epilogues
Art (6 works) · Medieval Literature and History (6 works) · Literature (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (2 works) · Capital (architecture (2 works) · Classics (2 works)