To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy was one of the most widely read and ...

Melvyn Bragg discusses Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy and asks whether philosophy should lead us toward consolation or lead us from it. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ...

The Consolation takes the form of a dialogue ... the emperor having served as a top advisor—and a personified Lady Philosophy who visits him in his room. Over the course of the dialogue ...