The first collection of philosophical essays devoted exclusively to Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy by scholars of late antiquity and medieval philosophy.
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Michael Wiitala is Associate College Lecturer in Philosophy at Cleveland State University. His essays have appeared in journals such as Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy and Apeiron and in collections such as Deification in the Latin Patristic Tradition (2019) and A Companion to Ancient Philosophy (2018).
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