Episode 102: An Old Man's Book (Augustine's City of God, Part 2 of 2)
Literature and History
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The Consolation of Philosophy
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius is set in an Ostrogothic prison cell. In the next program, we are going to jump about a century into the future and travel from Augustine's Hipporigius up north after the fall of the Western Empire. The city of God ideas can be seen popping up all over the intellectual work of the medieval period.
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