You won’t get much from the Nicomachean Ethics if you try to read it over a weekend. Like most philosophical texts, Aristotle ...

In the early sixth century, amid the ruins of the Roman Empire, Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy while imprisoned and awaiting execution. Boethius found spiritual nourishment from reading, ...

This pursuit of the mind is endlessly fascinating and—I would say, borrowing from the title of Boethius’s prison diary—even ...

Court intrigues led to an accusation of treason, and Boethius was executed, leaving his primary project incomplete. But one work he did finish is his On the Consolation of Philosophy, a discourse in ...

A scholar of medieval Christianity explores the history of Christians who spoke out unafraid to risk official censure or even ...

During his time in prison, he wrote a philosophical volume about the nature of what is true good – “On the Consolation of Philosophy” – that is studied even today. Boethius, who was ...