One of Alan's most notable works was one he modeled after Boethius ’ Consolation of Philosophy, to which he gave the title De Planctu Naturae, or The Plaint of Nature, and which was written most likely in the late 1160 ’ s.

Boethius in his second Commentary and The Consolation of Philosophy, this argument maintains the effectiveness of prayer.

Consolation of Philosophy () is a philosophical work by Boethius, written around the year 524.

Consolation of Philosophy was written during a one-year imprisonment Boethius served while awaiting trial – and eventual horrific execution – for the crime of treason under the Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great.

In the Consolation, Boethius answered religious questions without reference to Christianity, relying solely on natural philosophy and the Classical Greek tradition.

From a 1385 Italian manuscript of the Consolation: Miniatures of Boethius teaching and in prison

* Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy.

* Sanderson Beck, The Consolation of Boethius an analysis and commentary.

* Boethius ( c. 480 – 524 ), who also wrote a theological treatise On the Trinity, repeated the Macrobian model of the Earth in the center of a spherical cosmos in his influential, and widely translated, Consolation of Philosophy.

Another important source for the influence of Proclus on the Middle Ages is Boethius ' Consolation of Philosophy, which has a number of Proclus principles and motifs.

* c. 524: Boethius writes his Consolation of Philosophy.

* Boethius, Roman philosopher, is executed without trial, probably at Pavia, after a prison term during which he has written the " Consolation of Philosophy " ( approximate date ).

* Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy

The work is modelled on Boethius ' Consolation of Philosophy, evident in Adelard's vocabulary and phraseology.

While jailed, Boethius composed his Consolation of Philosophy, a philosophical treatise on fortune, death, and other issues.

Boethius imprisoned ( from 1385 manuscript of the Consolation )

La Vita Nuova is a prosimetrum, as is the Convivio, meaning that it is a piece which is made up of both verse and prose, in the vein of Boethius ' Consolation of Philosophy.

The title of the book is a reference to Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, in which philosophy appears as an allegorical figure to Boethius to console him in the period leading up to his impending execution.

Alfred the Great ’ s translation of Boethius ’ Consolation of Philosophy and the Old English Genesis ).

Over time the known world came to be viewed as bounded in the east by India and in the west by Thule, as expressed in the Consolation of Philosophy ( c. AD 524 ) by Boethius.

* Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius

The longest is a 10th century translation of Boethius ' Consolation of Philosophy contained in the Cotton manuscript Otho A. vi.

The Metres of Boethius are a series of Old English alliterative poems adapted from the Latin metra of the Consolation of Philosophy soon after the prose translation.

* Boethius, Consolation Of Philosophy, 1653

Boethius writes the book as a conversation between himself and Lady Philosophy.

* Henry Chadwick, Boethius: The Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology and Philosophy, 1990, ISBN 0-19-826549-2

An undercurrent of philosophy is added by Chaucer, mainly inspired by the Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius which Chaucer had also translated.

In the 6th century, the Consolation of Philosophy, by statesman and philosopher Boethius, written while he faced execution, reflected the Christian theology of casus, that the apparently random and often ruinous turns of Fortune's Wheel are in fact both inevitable and providential, that even the most coincidental events are part of God's hidden plan which one should not resist or try to change.

With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.

It is in the Boethius that the oft-quoted sentence occurs: " My will was to live worthily as long as I lived, and after my life to leave to them that should come after, my memory in good works.

The pursuit of wisdom, he assured his readers of the Boethius, was the surest path to power: " Study Wisdom, then, and, when you have learned it, condemn it not, for I tell you that by its means you may without fail attain to power, yea, even though not desiring it ".

Boethius was at the very heights of power in Rome and was brought down by treachery.

It is through Boethius that much of the thought of the Classical period was made available to the Western Medieval world.

It has often been said Boethius was the “ last of the Romans and the first of the Scholastics ”.

The book is heavily influenced by Plato and his dialogues ( as was Boethius himself ).

Shippey says that Tolkien knew well the translation of Boethius that was made by King Alfred and he quotes some “ Boethian ” remarks from Frodo, Treebeard and Elrond.

The concept of musica was split into four major kinds by the fifth century philosopher, Boethius: musica universalis, musica humana, musica instrumentalis, and musica divina.

The problem was introduced to the medieval world by Boethius, by his translation of Porphyry's Isagoge.

Peter Abelard was intrigued by the works of Boethius, and wrote an extensive commentary on the Isagoge.

The quadrivium is implicit in early Pythagorean writings and in the De nuptiis of Martianus Capella, although the term " quadrivium " was not used until Boethius early in the sixth century.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Symmachus and Boethius ( or, less frequently, year 1275 Ab urbe condita ).

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Boethius without colleague ( or, less frequently, year 1240 Ab urbe condita ).

* The Basilica of San Pietro in Ciel d ' Oro (" St. Peter in Golden Sky "), where Saint Augustine, Boethius and the Lombard king Liutprand are buried, was begun in the 6th century.

Based mainly on Aristotle, the first medieval philosopher to work on dialectics was Boethius.

According to early historians John of Fordun and Boethius, Carlisle existed before the arrival of the Romans in Britain and was one of the strongest British towns at the time.

He is regarded as the inventor of modern musical notation ( staff notation ) that replaced neumatic notation ; his text, the Micrologus, was the second-most-widely distributed treatise on music in the Middle Ages ( after the writings of Boethius ).

The first recorded use of brown as a colour name in English was in about 1000 AD in the Metres of Boethius.

Thus Grosseteste concluded, following very much in what Boethius had argued, that mathematics was the highest of all sciences, and the basis for all others, since every natural science ultimately depended on mathematics.