Rhetorica: The Weakness of Magnanimity
An essential part of the secret of magnanimity is, knowledge is not a zero-sum game.
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Texts in Context: Timeline of the Early Middle Ages
Just as Roman law and Christian faith were being torn to pieces in the Mediterranean, parchment and pen had appeared among the barbarians of the north …
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Rhetorica: The Practice of Magnanimity
“Most people are normal” does not sound controversial, or even worth saying; but it is surprisingly hard, and worthwhile, to really believe.
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Texts in Context: In the Year of Our Lord
The High Middle Ages are almost upon us. With them come two movements that will transfigure Europe and, eventually, the globe.
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Rhetorica: The Discipline of Largesse
The fourth moral principle underlying rhetoric, and the first that demands a social context, is the rule of magnanimity; so what’s that?
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Texts in Context: 1066 and All That
England as we know it, the England of the High Middle Ages and thereafter, finally attains recognizable shape.
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Rhetorica: The Little Trinity
Three mental virtues come before all others. Without them, no further thought is possible.
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Rhetorica: The Divisions of Rhetoric
“Rhetoric in its truest sense seeks to perfect men by showing them better versions of themselves, links in that chain extending up toward the ideal.” —Richard Weaver
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Texts in Context: The Great Estrangement
The Early Middle Ages faintly, but insistently, filed away at the integrity of Christendom; as they drew to a close, it gave way with a snap.
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Rhetorica: A Complement to Dialectica
Rhetoric is the crown of the Trivium, and this is not an accident: “these three are one, the glory equal, the majesty coeternal …”
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