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Battle of the Soul
Prudentius’s Psychomachia (5th century AD) is one of the first and one of the most influential of…
The Un-Dante
In a contribution to Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works Teodolinda Barolini contrasts the love poetry…
Nations: Grown or Imagined?
Romantic thinkers, perhaps most especially Johann Gottfried Herder, developed an organic conception of nationhood. A nation is…
Imagining Finland
Nations are “imagined communities,” and one of the ways nations imagine themselves is to imagine themselves as…
Invention of Allegory
CS. Lewis describes the formation of medieval allegorism in his classic Allegory of Love. He begins by distinguishing between…
Teach Us to Pray
Christians have watched in helpless horror at the release of videos of masked ISIS warriors shooting and…
First Links—4.24.15
Officials: Islamic Extremist’s Misfire Foiled Attack on Paris Christians The Chicago Tribune Up in Smoke—Plain Packaging and…
Mystic Ark
Conrad Rudolph’s The Mystic Ark is the product of impressive scholarship. Its focus is on the image of…
Deflating Humanism
In his English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, CS Lewis makes two deflationary comments about the effects…
First Links—4.23.15
Pope Francis: Europe’s Christians and Jews Must Stand Together to Defeat Persecution Cindy Wooden, The Catholic Herald…
Teaching Environment
Teaching and learning never take place in no-place. They are always in an environment. The issue is…
Sanctifying the Dead
“The dead do not praise Yahweh, nor do any who do down into silence” (Psalm 115:17). It’s…
Epic to Romance
RW Southern (Making of the Middle Ages) sees a commonality between the romances of of the high middle…
Questions for the Atlanta Archdiocese
The latest issue of the Georgia Bulletin, newspaper of the Atlanta Archdiocese, announces a new pastoral plan aimed at…
First Links—4.22.15
Relocating Enchantment Charlie Clark, Fare Forward Friends, This is Not Tolerance Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review ‘Reading Lists,…