Description: As a scholar, senator and consul, whose life was centered in Rome and later in Ravenna, Boethius belonged to two worlds--the world of pagan antiquity and the world of the Christian Middle Ages--and his life and work embody and embrace the spirit of both.
Brief description: Noel Harold Kaylor Jr. is Professor of English at Troy University, Executive Director of the International Boethius Society and coeditor of its interdisciplinary journal, Carmina Philosophiae. Philip Edward Phillips is Professor of English and Associate Dean of the University Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University.