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 ...

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, ...

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’s first task is to come to terms with the unpredictable vicissitudes of life (see epigraph), or what the ancients saw as the workings of the goddess Fortuna. Speaking to the Goddess ...

Boethius’s Lady Philosophy prefigures Dante’s angelic guide Beatrice in the Divine Comedy. The goddess Fortune and her ever-revolving wheel - one of the Consolation’s most memorable and enduring ...

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 ...

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was born in Rome around the year 475 C.E. A learned man, he served his nation faithfully as a senator and consul. But the early sixth century was a period of ...

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 ...