Category: Medieval Minds
Cosmos
Revolution! Copernicus did fling ……Earth’s sphere into high orbit. Luna laughed as...
Wearing One’s Habits: Aristotle, Aquinas, and the Making of a Virtuous Man
“It makes no small difference, then, whether we form habits of one kind or another from our very...
Hagia Sophia and the Evidential Power of Beauty: Divine Architecture as Apologetics
Truth in Stone and Flesh Hagia Sophia, located in Turkey, is one of the greatest structures ever...
Memento Mori: A Reflection on “The Ruin”
One of the idols of the modern era is that of Progress: namely, the idea that our culture is...
An Unlikely Witness
The poet who penned The Dream of the Rood for the Anglo-Saxon people faced the challenge of...
The Dream of the Crown
‘Dream of the Crown’ is a poem that pays homage not only to the Christ who suffered the crown of...
The Book of Kells
A manifold mass meanders through the museum. A line leads to the legendary illumination. The crowd...
Francis of Assisi
“Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially through my lord Brother Sun … Sister...
Dante for Moderns
“Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was...
A Call to Lament: An Apologetic Study of the Anglo-Saxon Elegies
Sickness, loss, and death are a natural part of life that we continually confront over the course...
Chronological Snobbery: In Reply to Contemporary Petrarchs
These are questions that must be asked, Questions of great importance: Can Renaissance or...
The Gravity of Sin: Truth in the Grotesque in Dante’s Inferno
We have a tendency to diminish our sin. We use words like “messy” to describe our spiritual...
Christ, Our Hero at Calvary: Meaning and Metaphor in Beowulf and “The Dream of the Rood”
When Christians like St Augustine of Canterbury first brought the Gospel over to Britain in the...
The Venerable Bede: Following the Medieval Christian Footpath
For if history records good things of good men, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate...
Death and Redemption for the Modern Heart: What We Can Learn from the Anglo-Saxon Elegy
What is it about modern man and our notion that there will, and always should be, constant...
The Quest of the Golden Queen
Part I: Incendium Aegis-wreck, that King worn like a shield, And now she stands, bare-breasted,...
Thomas Aquinas: Understanding Evil
At some point, most of us will go through a crisis of belief and wonder if there is a God. If God...
