Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
An interesting piece that touches on anti-Catholic myths, historical myths, and science vs. religion myths. The medieval Church, let’s be clear, had no objection to scientific progress. Throughout the Middle…
Thank you Paul Arbair who commented on a brief reference in my post on Joseph Tainter to Brexit in Tainterian (sic) terms with a link to his own far far far…
Voltaire to the contrary, history is a bag of tricks which the dead have played upon historians. The most remarkable of these illusions is the belief that the surviving written…
The original is here – I had nearly forgotten this review and that I had written for this publication. If I was to write it today I would have mentioned Godwin Meade…
Séamus Sweeney 