Hector Boece (/ˈbɔɪs/; also spelled Boyce or Boise; 1465–1536), known in Latin as Hector Boecius or Boethius, was a Scottish philosopher and historian...
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Boëcé (French pronunciation: [bɔɛse] ) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. Communes of the Orne department "Répertoire national...
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was owned by Hector Boece at the time he wrote his account of the barnacle goose myth. It is impossible to be certain if Hector Boece was influenced by...
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in its place. Boece attributed the law to a legendary king, Ewen or Evenus III. The modern French scholar Alain Boureau says that Boece probably invented...
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Boece is Geoffrey Chaucer's translation into Middle English of The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius. The original work, written in Latin, stresses...
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Hector Boece, writing half a century before Buchanan. Peter Hume Brown in his biography of Buchanan describes him as somewhat more sceptical than Boece in...
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city in Scotland first described by Hector Boece in his 16th-century Scotorum Historiae. According to Boece, it hosted the coronation of forty kings and...
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Lady Macbeth were first mentioned in 1527 by a Scottish historian Hector Boece in his book Historia Gentis Scotorum (History of the Scottish People) who...
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Danish philosopher Axel Boëthius (1889–1969), Swedish archaeologist Hector Boece (or Boethius, or Boyce) (1465–1536), Scottish philosopher and historian...
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