Pressure reveals how you think, not just what you face. In 'The Consolation of Philosophy,' Boethius questions fear, loss, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...