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First Links—5.4.15
Another Misguided MOOC Samuel Goldman, The American Conservative Is the West’s Loss of Faith Terminal? Antony Gormley, Standpoint…
Teaching Righteousness and Justice
Yahweh chose Abram and called him from Ur. He promised a land, and enough see to fill…
Love, Tristan Style
In his Tristan and Isolde, Gottfried of Strassburg lays out a non-courtly, non-comic, mystical vision of love.…
Fated Adventure
According to Michael Nerlich (Ideology of Adventure), “all figures of the Greek and Latin novels of adventure…
Siegfried in Victory and Defeat
Winder McConnell (Nibelungenleid, 98-99) sketches the changing uses of the epic in the mid-20th century: “During the…
Wagner, Tristan, Love
In an essay in A Companion to Gottfried of Strassburg’s Tristan, Ulrich Muller argues that “In Tristan und…
My New Tattoo
I never expected to get a tattoo. Until two months ago, I fully expected to go to…
A New Naming System
As Mother’s Day and Father’s Day approach, it’s time to discuss how we could set up a…
On Intellectual Genealogies
1 Paul begat Augustine; 2 Augustine begat Thomas, 3 Bonaventure, Bernard, Anselm, Boethius, 4 And Scotus, who prospered before his…
First Links—4.30.15
Science and Miracles Brother Thomas Davenport, O.P., Dominicana Why Women Aren’t Having Children Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic Littlemore…
Liberal Arts in Middle Ages
Even today, when historians have abandoned the idea, many regard the Middle Ages as a time dark…
Allegorizing Homer
Allegorization was one of the techniques medieval used, adapted from ancient writers, to incorporate pagan writing in…
Double Coding
Barbara Newman has argued in Medieval Crossover that we mistake medieval literature and thought if we look at…
Stateless marriage
Yellowhammer News reports that the Alabama state legislature is considering getting the state out of the marriage business: …
Art of Divine Love
Andreas Capellanus literally wrote the book on the Art of Courtly Love, but the concluding Book 3 suggests…
