As the Church of Rome and the Emperor Justin move to restore ties with the end of the Acacian Schism, tensions between King Theodoric of Italy and the Byzantine Empire increase leading to the imprisonment and death of both the Roman Senator Boethius and Pope John I. In the East, the Monophysites face the challenges of Julian of Halicarnassus and the Apthhartodocetae.
Links:
Painting of Farewell of Consul Boethius to his family by Jean-Victor Schnetz.
Map of the lands of the Arian kingdoms in 526
History of Philosophy without any gaps episode on Boethius
Pope Benedict XVI on Boethius
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#488 – A History of the Catholic Church – The Death of Boethius
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