Boethius in the Carolingian Schools
Margaret Gibson
The medievalist who goes to Pavia will visit first and most reverently the church of San Pietro Ciel d'Oro. It is an eighth-century foundation, reformed by Cluny in tenth much rebuilt altered over years. But you do not go it for architecture, nor gilded ceiling—long tarnished; salute relics: crypt, Boethius; on high altar St Augustine Hippo. There have categories medieval scholarship, which found its subject-matter language Boethius. These are easy generalizations. What we must consider harder, practical questions Boethius' entry into western academic tradition. To what extent why was he influence learning early Middle Ages? He conveyed classical heritage west, no doubt— but how when?
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