6th Century

Authors

A Roman statesman who wrote, while awaiting execution, the Consolation of Philosophy, along with careful theological tractates.

Bishop of Rome, whose Pastoral Rule set the standard for the care of souls and whose letters steadied a changing world.

Constantinople II, 553: the council that sought to settle the long dispute over the Three Chapters.

The turn from the ancient world to the medieval, in Gregory the Great and Boethius.