/lit/ - Literature

>>17690646
>read a history book
>reads a book on 20th-century Somalian history
woah anon it says nothing about the roman empire in here
Boethius, despite being a Christian, utilizes pagan-esque symbolism (see the first part where he's chatting with philosophy personified); much in the vein of Italian renaissance poets like Dante, Ariosto, Tasso. I know Rome wasn't destroyed in a day, I'm saying that Boethius was too anchored to antiquity for him to be an author markedly "of the Middle Ages".
>>17690686
oh whatever my point still stands; the Renaissance started in Italy sooner than most places anyway
>>17690694
Shades of grey are there but saying that Boethius belonged as unreservedly to the Middle Ages as the author of the Nibelungenlied, for example, is silly.
Why can't u all be less buttmad lol.