HON 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Geoffrey Chaucer, Human Height, Omniscience
23 Jul 2017
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Boethius is a well educated italian guy living in northern italy under the lombards, who are of german heritage. He comes from the last generation of civilized and educated people in the. Wrote 7 liberal arts earlier in his life. Boethius get thrown in jail over some pretty ridiculous charges about sedition or something, and he writes the consolation of philosophy while in prison. It is a kind of philosophy for dummies book, written in the style of plato"s dialogue. At the time of writing consolation , in ad 524, the rome is rapidly disintegrating. In ad 476 the last roman emperor falls, and the western empire collapses. Justinian is the current emperor of the byzantine empire, and plans to invade the. West since there is no stable emperor, and does eventually invade during the. The east is still civilized because they speak greek. One of the most read books of the medieval world.
