University of Notre Dame Australia provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. A favourite text during the Middle Ages was The Consolation of Philosophy, written by the medieval philosopher, ...

Lucie Skeaping talks to Sam Barrett and Benjamin Bagby about Sequentia’s project to reconstruct songs from Boethius's 'The Consolation of Philosophy', a seminal medieval book. Show more Lucie Skeaping ...

Friday is the feast day of St. Severinus — at least, that’s the name under which the Vatican’s Sacred Congregation of Rites canonized him in 1883. But history knows and celebrates him by another name: ...

Once a bedrock Christian classic, Boethius’s “Consolation of Philosophy” has been neglected for decades. It’s time for a revival. Some 27 letters into his correspondence, Screwtape stages an ...

Boethius, a sixth-century Roman statesman, was in the prime of his life when his political career was brought to a sudden and ignominious end. Running afoul of corrupt politicians, he was falsely ...

The page of The Consolation of Philosophy once stolen from The Cambridge Songs Cambridge University Library Something unusual happened at the Pembroke College Chapel in Cambridge, England, over the ...

Today I would like to speak to you about Boethius and Cassiodorus, two Christian writers who lived during some of the most turbulent years of Western Christianity, especially in Italy. Odoacer, king ...

Boethius does not ask—but we may—‘Who says that humans are rational?’ In Boethius’s inner dialogue, he takes the position of seeing no room for free will, but one senses he wants to be disproven by ...

Now I see that my foothold was always uncertain. —Boethius Anicius Boethius, his full name being considerably longer, was a Roman aristocrat and a member of the first medieval generation. He held ...