Reformations. The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
Reformations. The Early Modern World, 1450-1650. Carlos M. N. Eire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. Reformation is a retelling of this epochal change in western…
Reformations. The Early Modern World, 1450-1650. Carlos M. N. Eire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. Reformation is a retelling of this epochal change in western…
The Reformation: A History. Diarmaid MacCulloch. New York: Penguin Books, 2003. The word “Protestant” was originally related to a specific occasion in 1529 when at the…
Christ and the Kingdoms of Men: Foundations of Political Life. David C. Innes. Phillipsburg, New Jersey: P&R Publishing, 2019. While the modern state is only around…
God Against the Revolution: The Loyalist Clergy's Case Against the American Revolution. Gregg L. Frazer. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2018. Twitter, one hardly needs…
Sunday, January 3, 2021 Zoom ID: https://uleth.zoom.us/j/96881593776 Participation requires a password that will be publicized a few days before the meeting primarily via email to [email protected]. Please…
Introduction: The Corruption of Words Concerning the apparent abuse of the word “eternity,” Romano Guardini observes: “A word is not merely a sign to convey a meaning. …
Storytelling shaped Washington Irving and his life as much as he shaped it. Irving describes how from boyhood he rambled about the countryside and “made myself familiar…
In the 1820s, Washington Irving was credited with inspiring the romantic revival of Christmas in America. His Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentleman relayed sentimental tales of the British…
Those of us who associate Christmas with cold weather, rain, snow, dark days with little sunlight, and windy chills, might sometimes forget to count our blessings. It…
In the first Canto of his Inferno, having projected himself into a dream of his own making, Dante is confronted with a she-wolf (lupa), ultimate incarnation of…
Introduction In the Convivio, Dante writes about his admiration for a Florentine girl named Beatrice. Here Dante reveals that he first looked at Beatrice when he was…
Introduction Even a perfunctory read of Utopia is likely to give one pause. Included in More’s “truly golden handbook” are incongruities too glaring to escape notice—incongruities between…
Voegelinview 2020 Christmas Reading List Brought to you by the friends of and contributors to Voegelinview! Tilo Schabert (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) I propose two novels of…
Comparative Cultural Studies and the New Weltliteratur. Elke Sturm-Trigonakis. Translated from the German by Athanasia Margoni and Maria Kaisar. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press. 2013. Elke…
The Figure of Modernity: On the Irregularity of an Epoch. Tilo Schabert. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. What is modernity and from where does it come? What…