Friends Who Are True Friends

Let fortune take her friends with her

Illustration from a 1385 Italian manuscript of The Consolation of Philosophy.

Earlier this summer, as I was trying to find a header image for my post “Denigrating Normativity Vs. Punishing Differences: Thoughts on the Backlash,” I came across a book called The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius. It was written in AD 523 while Boethius, previously a powerful Roman official, was awaiting trial and eventual execution.

I was surprised that this book escaped my attention all this time, considering my education in Religious Studies and my own personal interests but, somehow, it had!