Hector Boece (/ˈbɔɪs/; also spelled Boyce or Boise; 1465–1536), known in Latin as Hector Boecius or Boethius, was a Scottish philosopher and historian... 10 KB (1,202 words) - 06:38, 2 May 2024 |
Boëcé (French pronunciation: [bɔɛse] ) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. Communes of the Orne department "Répertoire national... 2 KB (70 words) - 20:01, 5 December 2023 |
Boece is Geoffrey Chaucer's translation into Middle English of The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius. The original work, written in Latin, stresses... 3 KB (336 words) - 20:46, 5 March 2019 |
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... 56 KB (8,159 words) - 02:23, 17 April 2024 |
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... 29 KB (3,394 words) - 22:55, 7 May 2024 |
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... 24 KB (2,093 words) - 17:43, 19 July 2023 |
Archived 2012-10-05 at the Wayback Machine is attested from the 14th century with Chaucer's work Boece 1374. OED Lockyer, p. 366 Smith's Bible Dictionary... 7 KB (482 words) - 11:03, 7 May 2024 |
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... 112 KB (13,546 words) - 18:31, 10 May 2024 |