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whither can I flee from thy presence?
Reading in the Psalms yesterday, I was struck by the resonances between Psalm 138 and Anselm’s project in the Proslogion and Cur Deus Homo. My read of Anselm here is shaped heavily by Burcht Pranger’s interpretation of the saint’s thought. Not coincidentally, I recently attended a lecture by Prof. Pranger on Anselm, thus these ideas were percolating…
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The Alexandreis, Book X
At the close of Book IX, Alexander has conquered the world, and sets his sites on more distant pastures: The boundary of the world lies near at hand. Not to provoke the ill will of the gods, the world’s too narrow, and the breadth of the earth is insufficient for its only lord. Bu when…
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Letters to a Diminished Church, Dorothy Sayers
I enjoy Dorothy Sayers and think she’s underrated as a thinker, though I haven’t read all that much. Her suggestions in her article on the Trivium have always struck me as eminently reasonable. Anyway, this is a collection of her essays. Within she offers a number of wonderful insights and images, this is my favorite: But,…
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The Alexandreis, Walter of Châtillon
Lately, I feel like I’ve lost some of my connection to the Medieval world. I’m rooted in Honorius, but not in the Middle Ages more broadly. In an attempt to rectify this, and to get through some books that I’ve long had on my to read/to reread list, I’m going to try to read a…
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Framing and the Loyalists
Trying to post more, and thus gathering some scraps that have found their way into my notebook over the past few months. The plight of the Loyalists during and after the Revolutionary War is interesting to me, especially how they’re portrayed in our history books. For instance, look at the framing here in Joseph Ellis’s…
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Thoughts (Borrowed) While Looking at the Sky in Maine
By such signs, and on foot of such examples, some say that bees have supped a draught that is divine, that, as a matter of true fact, a god pervades the whole wide world, sea’s expanse and heaven’s height, whence flocks and herds and men, and all species of savage beast, derive that fine line…
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I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.
Last quarter I was lucky enough to work as a writing intern for a course which read Dante’s Inferno. I love Dante, despite (more likely because of) feeling that I’ll never do more than scratch the surface of the Commedia. Mostly, I just hang back and wonder at it. A few images in particular that…
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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.”
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I place before my inward eyes myself with all that I am–my body, soul, and all my powers–and I gather round me all the creatures which God ever created in heaven, on earth, and in all the elements, each one severally with its name, whether birds of the air, beasts of the forest, fishes of…
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Easy to Forget – Laudator Temporis Acti
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