What Boethius described was no symptom of carceral derangement; the lady was his metaphor for the power of philosophy to breathe life back into a deadened soul. With luck, you are not reading this ...
Errors and anomalies do not stop at individual cases; they permeate extreme-age research.
On her 80th birthday, Carolyn Ancell looks back before looking forward to an exciting new stage of the spiritual life.