This was very interesting. Thank you for posting. I'm very curious about how the Roman Empire ended and the Dark Ages began, how that transition happened. In Boethius' time, it seemed there was stability in the new Ostrogothic Era, so there were educated, enlightened people and a working bureaucratic system in place. I'd always assumed the Roman Empire fell into ruination and ignorant hordes of barbarians destroyed all the remnants and knowledge from Roman times and that's why they were called the Dark Ages because all was in chaos and people were living hand to mouth. But it seems thats not true. I don't know why that misconception is so prevalent. I guess people , like myself, just assume the high point of Roman Civilization was completely destroyed and civilization had to start al over again from nothing. Your videos are so enlightening.
You might like to read up on Cassiodorus, Boethius' slightly younger contemporary, who effectively created the medieval educational curriculum. The two of them provided a digest of classical learning so it could survive the educational regression of the period 600 - 1100 (to oversimplify dates).
@@alanpennie8013 Thank you very much for the info on Cassiodorus. I will look him up on www.academie.edu it's a wonderful non-profit website which believes in putting academic papers and books in the public domain. All you have to do is enter into the search box your area of interest. You can even dig deeper and click on the author's name (usually a university professor) and get a list of all their other works that have been uploaded to the site. Years ago I stumbled upon this letter written by princess Radegund of Thuringia in the sixth century. epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu/letter/947.html It really amazes me. Apparently she lved in a well-established kingdom, Thuringia. She is so eloquent and articulate that it's clear she was highly edicated. Yet, until I read her letter I too believed in the myth of the "Dark ages". I don't believe now that they WERE so dark, maybe the powers that were then just erased the history of the cultures they destroyed. For example, have you ever heard of Tartaria??? Thanks again.
I love your history videos, you give so many details about the person, that makes the viewer really feel they have an insight into their character and personality. Right now I'm reading The French Revolution by Nesta Webster and have downloaded some material written in the 19th century about the Jacobins. There are so many parallels between our current political landscape here in the US and elsewhere, and the situation in France that precipitated the French Revolution, it's truly amazing. Only instead of a plandemic, the corrupted elites created a scamfamine. Instead of owning 96% of an electronic media system that spewed out a daily stream of Fake News, the conspiring elites paid agitators to stir up the people in local areas, flooded the bookshops with pamphlets and had a cadre of paid speakers to stoke up hatred of the King and nobility from street corners in Paris and other large cities. Like the nothingburger, interminable "Russiagate", they also cooked up a false charge against Marie Antoinette, how she was so wasteful and extravagant by buying a diamond necklace, the paperwork to "prove" the sale eventually revealed to be a counterfeit, fraudulent document - like the Steele Dossier .Thr parallels are so fascinating. It would be great to see a video of the true players of that time and how they manufactured a revolution back then to implement THEIR Hegelian Dialectical scheme of Problem/Reaction/Solution to achieve their nefarious goals.
Boethius is a surprisingly good writer. I love the flourishes of poetry in the Consolations of Philosophy.
This was very interesting. Thank you for posting. I'm very curious about how the Roman Empire ended and the Dark Ages began, how that transition happened. In Boethius' time, it seemed there was stability in the new Ostrogothic Era, so there were educated, enlightened people and a working bureaucratic system in place. I'd always assumed the Roman Empire fell into ruination and ignorant hordes of barbarians destroyed all the remnants and knowledge from Roman times and that's why they were called the
Dark Ages because all was in chaos and people were living hand to mouth. But it seems thats not true. I don't know why that misconception is so prevalent. I guess people , like myself, just assume the high point of Roman Civilization was completely destroyed and civilization had to start al over again from nothing. Your videos are so enlightening.
You might like to read up on Cassiodorus, Boethius' slightly younger contemporary, who effectively created the medieval educational curriculum.
The two of them provided a digest of classical learning so it could survive the educational regression of the period 600 - 1100 (to oversimplify dates).
@@alanpennie8013 Thank you very much for the info on Cassiodorus. I will look him up on www.academie.edu it's a wonderful non-profit website which believes in putting academic papers and books in the public domain. All you have to do is enter into the search box your area of interest. You can even dig deeper and click on the author's name (usually a university professor) and get a list of all their other works that have been uploaded to the site.
Years ago I stumbled upon this letter written by princess Radegund of Thuringia in the sixth century. epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu/letter/947.html It really amazes me. Apparently she lved in a well-established kingdom, Thuringia. She is so eloquent and articulate that it's clear she was highly edicated. Yet, until I read her letter I too believed in the myth of the "Dark ages". I don't believe now that they WERE so dark, maybe the powers that were then just erased the history of the cultures they destroyed. For example, have you ever heard of Tartaria??? Thanks again.
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Thanks for letting me know about this site.
These videos are always so well done!
I love your history videos, you give so many details about the person, that makes the viewer really feel they have an insight into their character and personality. Right now I'm reading The French Revolution by Nesta Webster and have downloaded some material written in the 19th century about the Jacobins. There are so many parallels between our current political landscape here in the US and elsewhere, and the situation in France that precipitated the French Revolution, it's truly amazing. Only instead of a plandemic, the corrupted elites created a scamfamine. Instead of owning 96% of an electronic media system that spewed out a daily stream of Fake News, the conspiring elites paid agitators to stir up the people in local areas, flooded the bookshops with pamphlets and had a cadre of paid speakers to stoke up hatred of the King and nobility from street corners in Paris and other large cities. Like the nothingburger, interminable "Russiagate", they also cooked up a false charge against Marie Antoinette, how she was so wasteful and extravagant by buying a diamond necklace, the paperwork to "prove" the sale eventually revealed to be a counterfeit, fraudulent document - like the Steele Dossier .Thr parallels are so fascinating.
It would be great to see a video of the true players of that time and how they manufactured a revolution back then to implement THEIR Hegelian Dialectical scheme of Problem/Reaction/Solution to achieve their nefarious goals.
I guess I’m impressed that you got all the way through it without mentioning “a Confederacy of dunces.”
Excellent video, he was a fascinating man.
Wow the origins of the Oh you meme are much older than I expected...
Thanks for the details
Great video
The tudor queen of England, Queen Elizabeth translated the consolation of philosophy also...
I learned of Boethius as I was quandering the numbering system used by Pythagorus
Greek mathematical notation? Please elaborate.
Nobody's going to mention the fact that we should just heard Boethius described as the Grant Hill/Penny Hardaway of Philosophy?
I read his works for an early medieval philosophy class.
Thank you.....
Poor guy
He should have been a bishop or a monk.
He'd have been safer.
@@alanpennie8013 Too bad he wanted wealth and power.
Poetic irony of translating to Latin
"...rrrriiiggghhhttt now"
I don't think he was beheaded. If I remember correctly he was pounded to death in a giant mortar and pestle...😬