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).
