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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

AN ACADEMIC from Oxford visiting a Scottish university has discovered the oldest surviving non-biblical Scottish manuscript in a vault. The 12th century copy of Boethius’s “Consolation of Philosophy” ...

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 ...

Of old Roman aristocratic stock, the great philosopher-theologian Boethius came to the attention of Theodoric, the Gothic king of Italy, whose enlightened attitude failed him when Boethius was ...

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 ...