The Virtuous Arthur: Resolving a Tension Between Lewis and Spenser

In Images of Life, C.S. Lewis rejects Spenser’s “Letter to Raleigh” as authoritative for interpreting the character of Arthur. Spenser writes, “I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was […]

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Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Its Holy Knight, Red Crosse

Spenser’s The Faerie Queene tells a tale on many levels, including an ode to Queen Elizabeth (after whom the poem is titled) and an allegorical critique of the Roman Catholic […]

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Medieval Virtue: Arthur and Sir Gawain, Women and Men

The accounts of King Arthur, as recorded by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace and Layamon, and the tale of Sir Gawain, as told in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, exhibit […]

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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 youth; it makes a very great difference, or rather all the difference.” […]

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In Page and Film: Visions of Virtue in Harry Potter

Calling Harry Potter a cultural phenomenon is scarcely an exaggeration. Few franchises have been as successful, impactful, and well-loved as the on based around J. K. Rowling’s story about a […]

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