The Consolation of Philosophy ranks among the most remarkable books to be written by a prisoner awaiting the execution of a tyrannical death sentence. Its interpretation is bound up with his other writings, on mathematics and music, on Aristotelian and propositional logic, and on central themes of Christian dogma.
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Henry Chadwick, formerly Master, Peterhouse, Cambridge.
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