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: ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...