Boethius : Trinitarian Grasp of Being through Music
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The work of “the last Roman and the first scholastic” is usually interpreted in a reductive and fragmented manner: certain texts are received by logicians, some others by literary scholars and medievalists, the others by musicologists and still others by theologians. However, the attempts to understand Boethius in his entirety and in the interconnectedness of the themes he dealt with are rare, notwithstanding the naturally holistic approach inherent to this author. The paper aims to offer a way to trace the internal (organic) unity in Boethius's work and to show that the concepts of music and the Trinity may be the keys to revealing this unity. The paper will be a report on ongoing dissertation research (research in progress): it will present the scope and reach of the concept of music in Boethius (growing from De institutione musica, but going beyond it), as well as his remarks on the topic of the Trinity; it will continue with a mention of the neglected aspects of Boethius’s Theological Treatises and their proto-musical hints, and will conclude with an attempt to a Boethian musico-Trinitarian synthesis (incorporating also De Consolatione Philosophia). The paper will try to show that the aforementioned unity is not merely a theoretical abstraction or juxtaposition, but that it is also organically linked to musico-poetical performance practice, as well as to liturgical practice, becoming the true and comprehensive unity. |
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