Texts in Context: The Dowry of Our Lady
At the same time as a high tide of mysticism in England, the synthesis of Christendom was collapsing, thanks in part to its founder, the papacy.
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Texts in Context: Blood Upon the Roses
The Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of the Roses are infamously complex, so here’s an inattentive summary.
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Texts in Context: O Rose Thou Art Sick
Like every other time, the High Middle Ages were doomed to pass; but as they did, a certain kind of civilizational innocence seems to have gone with them.
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Texts in Context: An Examination of the Holy Office
The Inquisition might be the single most faultily-understood institution in history; and yet there is a core of truth in all the errors about it.
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Texts in Context: The Apostolic Poverty Movement
One of the most potent forces throughout medieval society was the apostolic poverty movement, heretical and orthodox by turns; but what was it?
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Texts in Context: The Queen of the Sciences
“What great advantages would philosophy give us over other men, if by studying it we could learn to govern our passions?” — Peter Abelard
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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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Texts in Context: Once, Now, and Forever
You can say what you like about the Emperor Nero. … No really, go ahead. The bloke’s dead, he can’t stop you.
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Texts in Context: The Pax Romana
Texts in ContextThe Pax Romana By Gabriel Blanchard “Behold, I Tell You a Mystery” The Divine Logos Naturally it is impossible, in a format like this, to write
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Student Poem: The Tulip Garden
CLT alumna Autumn Kennedy shares a poem on the plan, and significance, of a flower garden.
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