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The treasures of illuminated books in Malta

Edit The Malta Independent 23 May 2016
Although they are not in quantities such as can be found in other libraries, Malta has quite a number of illuminated books that constitute a national treasure which is not generally known and indeed mostly kept out of sight ... Some even date from before the Knights' arrival in Malta, such as an Adoration of the Magi dating from 1497. An earlier book from 1470 discusses Boethius and philosophy ... ....

First performance in 1,000 years: ‘lost’ songs from the Middle Ages are brought back to life (University of Cambridge)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
Saturday's performance features music set to the poetic portions of Roman philosopher Boethius' magnum opus The Consolation of Philosophy. One of the most widely-read and important works of the Middle Ages, it was written during Boethius' sixth century imprisonment, before his execution for treason ... While it's unclear whether Boethius ever wrote ......

You Can Now Listen To A Song That Hasn't Been Played For 1,000 Years

Edit IFL Science 25 Apr 2016
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have reconstructed songs from a medieval musical called “Songs of Consolation,” based on the Roman philosopher Boethius's magnum opus "The Consolation of Philosophy." The original work was written by Boethius's in the 6th century during his imprisonment, shortly before his execution ......

Listen to Middle Ages melody reconstructed using a stolen manuscript lost for 142 years

Edit The Daily Mail 22 Apr 2016
The new performance has music set to the poetic portions of Roman philosopher Boethius' magnum opus The Consolation of Philosophy, and took 20 years to reconstruct ... ....

Live music heals patients and practitioners

Edit Atlanta Journal 28 Feb 2016
Juliette Keelan, CMP at Emory Healthcare has two quotes on the back of her business card. “Music heals.” — Pythagoras. “Music is the principle that unites body, soul, and spirit.” —Boethius Phil Skinner for the AJC Juliette Keelan, Therapeutic Musician at Emory Healthcare, plays her harp for a patient ... First though, a little explanation for better understanding ... Joseph campus ... We are not music therapists (MTs) ... Join The Conversation ... By ... ....

Pit Of Fish Bones Is World's Earliest Evidence Of Fermentation

Edit IFL Science 18 Feb 2016
Researchers studying thousands of fish bones excavated from a 9,200-year-old pit in Sweden have uncovered the world’s earliest evidence of food fermentation – and it’s accomplished without the use of salt ... After analyzing the preserved fish bones sieved from the gutter-shaped pit, Lund University’s Adam Boethius revealed that they were freshwater fish that had been fermented ... The cold was key too ... Image in the text ... SHMM Photo Gallery. ....

Signs of early settlement in the Nordic region date back to the cradle of civilization

Edit Topix 09 Feb 2016
The discovery of the world's oldest storage of fermented fish in southern Sweden could rewrite the Nordic prehistory with findings indicating a far more complex society than previously thought. The unique discovery by osteologist Adam Boethius from Lund University was made when excavating a 9,200 year-old settlement at what was once a lake in Blekinge, Sweden ... ....

Signs of early settlement in the Nordic region date back to the cradle of civilisation ...

Edit Public Technologies 08 Feb 2016
'Our findings of large-scale fish fermentation, a traditional way of preserving fish, indicate that not only was this area settled at that time, it was also able to support a large community', says Adam Boethius, whose findings are now being published in the Journal of Archaeological Science ... From a global perspective, the development in the Nordic region could correspond to that of the Middle East at the time,' says Adam Boethius....

Tempus Non Fugit

Edit Huffington Post 08 Feb 2016
Time is a cruel bitch goddess. We measure our lives in coffee spoons and wonder why we feel so crushed by the tick-tock of minutes piling down on us through the burying years ... Rushing through the measured world, we forget that ours is the first civilization to be so obsessed and bedeviled by time ... As the 7th century philosopher Boethius put it, "The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity." ... The time is now....

Warrantor to relish drop in grade

Edit Sporting Life 20 Dec 2015
CHELMSFORD. 2.20 Boethius, 2.50 Fab Lolly, 3.20 Tommy's Secret, 3.50 COLD AS ICE (NAP), 4.20 U S Navy Seal, 4.55 Tempuran, 5.25 Two Sugars. LINGFIELD ... WOLVERHAMPTON ... DOUBLE. Cold As Ice and Boethius. Check out all Sky Bet's horse racing prices! ... A feature of Charlie Appleby's horses in 2015 was how much they improved from their first run to their second and he has another qualifier in Boethius ... New Sky Bet customers ... ....

The Order of the Universe (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Oct 2015
(Source. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection) ... To borrow T. S ... .') ... In Wetherbee's book Platonism and Poetry in the Twelfth Century, he finds in this speech echoes of Venus' plea in Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Heroides, the Vulgate Psalms and Philosophy's prayer in Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. (The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library publishes the Psalms and the Old English translation of Boethius.) Wetherbee explains ... ... ....

When a Pope Betrays the Gay World With Kisses

Edit Huffington Post 13 Oct 2015
These days there remains much buzz about Pope Francis I's meetings with Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis and his long time friend, Yayo Grassi. Davis is a vilified woman who, while not following U.S ... Conservatives and liberals are spinning these meetings like Boethius, the 6th century philosopher might spin fortune's wheel or chatter about Lady Philosophy ... It is too easy for the Pope to hug and kiss his old friend and former student ... ....

St. Gregory’s Welcomes New Faculty Members (Saint Gregory's University)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Sep 2015
(Source. Saint Gregory's University). The start of a new school year not only brings new students to St. Gregory's University, but new faculty as well. St. Gregory's is pleased to announce the addition of nine new faculty members for the 2015-2016 school year. St. Gregory's is pleased to welcome the following new faculty members ... Dr ... Dr ... Dr ... Fugikawa has also published in Carmina Philisophiae, the Journal of the International Boethius Society....
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