![]() ![]() Especially those Arthurian pre-Renaissance poems commonly referred to as the Alliterative Revival have been affected by the newly introduced model of medieval tragedy as established in Chaucer or Lydgate’s Fall of Princes. On the other hand, Arthurian literature as a literary product has not only influenced the evolution of the European literary canon, but has itself been struck by several literary and philosophical concepts. Beginning with the Roman and early medieval tradition culminating in Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiae scholars have tried to apply the concept of Fortuna to nearly every literary production from Cicero up to Shakespeare’s Renaissance conception of medieval tragedy and Fortune’s influence upon it. The concept of Fortuna and her wheel, or to be more general of fate and fortune itself in ancient and medieval literary and philosophical culture has been the topic of numerous investigations stretching over cultural and temporal boundaries. 2.2 Boethius and the De Consolatione PhilosophiaeĤ.2.1 Fortune, Arthur and the Nine Worthies ![]()
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