27 Boethius and Cassiodorus

Boethius and Cassiodorus

I now discuss two ecclesiastical writers, Boethius and Cassiodorus, who lived in some of the most turbulent years in the Christian West and in the Italian peninsula in particular. Odoacer, King of the Rugians, a Germanic race, had rebelled, putting an end to the Western Roman Empire (476), but it was not long before he was killed by Theodoric’s Ostrogoths, who had controlled the Italian Peninsula for some decades…

Taken from Great Christian Thinkers by Pope Benedict XVI