Boethius, perhaps the earliest of famous authors who produced genius while in prisoned, was eventually executed for the treason under King Theodoric the Great. His book, which has been lauded as the most important Western work on Medieval Christianity (despite the fact that Christianity is never overtly mentioned) and proclaimed as the last great Western writing of the era, is all the more poignant considering the author's terrible circumstances. In the year he spent awaiting trial Boethius spec