Texts in Context: The Seven Crowns of Englalond
If there is one thing we know about England during the age of the Heptarchy, it’s that it isn’t that, it’s something else.
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Texts in Context: An Outline of Islam
In light of the role it will play in subsequent history (especially its importance in intellectual history), let’s take a moment to dig more deeply into Islam.
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Texts in Context: The Surrender
Texts in Context:The Surrender By Gabriel Blanchard Into the established dichotomies of the Græco-Roman West and the Syro-Persian East, suddenly, out of the south, something new leapt forth
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Texts in Context: The Song of the Desert
The defining institution of antiquity had been the forum; that of early modernity would, perhaps, be a school. The path from the one to the other ran through a cloister.
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Texts in Context: The Roman Empire After Rome
The reign of Justinian and Theodora seemed like it might be the recovery of a Roman Mediterranean; at first.
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Texts in Context: From Antiquity to the Mediævum
We have come now to, perhaps, the most libeled and distorted period in all of human history. Let’s clear a few things up before we properly begin!
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Dante: An Author Profile, Continued
DanteAn Author ProfileSecond Canto: Vita Nuova By Gabriel Blanchard From the depths of political, personal, and spiritual defeat, Dante went on—”God knoweth how”—to write one of the great
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Dante: An Author Profile
The canon of literature is like a lofty tower, composed by hands that seem superhuman (for “there were giants in the earth in those days”). Yet one poet surpassed storied Babel; for he did “reach unto heaven, and make a name.”
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Boccaccio: An Author Profile
The Renaissance was a pivotal historical period which did not exist, and lasted for one century that began in 1300 and ended in 1650, give or take fifty years in both directions. These, at least, are the impression one might take away from reading a randomly-chosen handful of modern historians.
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St. Bernard: An Author Profile
St. BernardAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard The academy, the battlefield, the royal court, and the chapel of twelfth-century Europe all bore the mark of St. Bernard’s hand.
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