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A Queens University Belfast study on medieval knowledge of astronomy touches on a recurrent theme here: the false myth of the Dark Ages: “The idea for this study came about…
From Adam DeVille’s Eastern Christian Books blog: In this short book, Bollas imitates Freud in some ways insofar as he engages in broad cultural analysis of many themes of…
From Lynn White’s “Medieval Technology and Social Change“, Chapter III, Section 2, “The Development of Machine Design” (114-5) Students of applied mechanics are agreed that ‘the technical advance which…
Originally posted on dispatches from the undergrowth:
Conservationists constantly worry about how to ‘keep things going’ – be it a bird, butterfly, or some other organism teetering on the brink.…
From “God’s Gamble: The Gravitational Power of Crucified Love” by Gil Bailie, here is a passage on “the cul-de-sac of autonomous individualism.” I have been reading a lot of and…
In the current TLS there is an excellent review by David Rundle of two recent books on handwriting. Anyone who knows me, or more specifically had had to read my…
“In the special darkness of the northern winter, where life was centered in small pools of candlelight, beyond which shadows draped and flickered mysteriously, the mind explored the dark side…
I taught myself to live simply and wisely, to look at the sky and pray to God, and to wander long before evening to tire my superfluous worries. When the…
Séamus Sweeney 