Kaylor Receives Inaugural IBS Honorary Membership Award

Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., International Boethius Society Founder, and Philip Edward Phillips, IBS Executive Director

At the International Boethius Society information session/business meeting held on June 8, 2026, at the Thirteenth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University, IBS Executive Director Philip Edward Phillips presented Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. with the Society’s inaugural Honorary Membership Award on behalf of the membership, executive committee, and trustees. This award, created in 2025, recognizes members in good standing for "significant and sustained contributions to Boethian studies" and "exemplary dedication to the Society’s goals.” 

Kaylor is the founder of the IBS (at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo in 1992) and former Executive Director (1992-2025). Now Executive Director Emeritus, he is a former editor of Carmina Philosophiae: Journal of the International Boethius Society and the author, editor, and co-editor of numerous major publications on Boethius—from The Medieval Consolation of Philosophy: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland, 1992) to Remaking Boethius: The English Language Translation Tradition of The Consolation of Philosophy (Brepols/ACMRS, 2019)—as well as scholarly editions of English translations of the Consolatio by John Bracegirdle (ACMRS, 1999) and Queen Elizabeth I (2009).

New IBS Secretary

Murton Appointed IBS Secretary

On behalf of the Officers, Trustees, and membership of the International Boethius Society (IBS), I am pleased to announce the appointment of Megan Murton as IBS Secretary, effective immediately. A longtime, active member of the Society, Murton is an associate professor of English and the Director of Graduate Studies for English and Medieval Studies at the Catholic University of America, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Middle English literature, especially Chaucer. Her research focuses on Chaucer’s engagement with religious and philosophical concerns, with particular attention to the decisive role of Boethius in Chaucer’s early reputation as a “noble philosophical poete.” In addition to several articles on Boethian influence in Chaucer’s poetry, including ones published in Carmina Philosophiae, she has written on the Middle English translation tradition of the Consolation of Philosophy. Her first book is Chaucer’s Prayers: Writing Christian and Pagan Devotion (D.S. Brewer, 2020), and she is currently preparing a second book on Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde as a narrative reinvention of the Consolation. We are grateful to her for accepting this important officer position and dedicating herself to the advancement of Boethian studies worldwide.

Philip Edward Phillips
Executive Director
International Boethius Society