Category: Administrata
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24. Going Forward
Big announcement first, I’m going to move this blog over to substack. Two main reasons for the move. The first is that it will hopefully make following my writing easier. Right now, most of my traffic is driven by facebook, but that requires me to manually copy and paste the link every time I post […]
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15. The Plan Going Forward
At the end of my little writing challenge, I was worried about losing momentum. At the same time, I had to do some traveling, and the post-a-day schedule simply wasn’t tenable just in terms of the time commitment, to say nothing of the mental drain compounded by a worry that I’d run dry on topics […]
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14. The End
Well, I did it, successfully completed the little challenge I laid out for myself. Just some general observations. One thing that surprised me was that I didn’t run out of things to talk about. In fact, my biggest problem was the opposite. The posts that gave me the most difficulty did so precisely because I […]
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1. Writing Challenge
“Do something, or do nothing at all. Do ardently whatever you decide to do; do it with your might; and let the whole of your activity be a series of vigorous fresh starts. Half-work, which is half-rest, is good neither for rest nor for work.” – A.G. Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life I tell myself, over […]
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Satisfying Your Deepest Desire
The desire to take a class with me, of course! During the Spring and Summer quarter, I’ll be teaching at the Graham School, in the Spring on Nature in the Middle Ages and in the Summer on Medieval Travel. Here are the course descriptions, first, nature: All the creatures of the world are like a book, […]
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I’ll be presenting at the Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference at Villanova late next month. Conference Program here. A lot of very interesting looking talks, should be fun. I’m not very good at coming up with titles. I think this is my 5th with the form “The _______ of/in Honorius Augustodunensis.”
Dan Yingst 