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The Rule of Christendom
“And for this I am sent, that we might eat together of the gifts of Almighty God.”
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Of Flat Characters, Round Characters, and Saints
Benedict of Nursia, Gregory the Dialogist, and E. M. Forster
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February’s Labor of the Month: Survival
The Medieval Year: Sixteenth Day before the Kalends of March
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Robert Keim
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The Cave Where Western Monasticism Was Born
How utterly momentous was that day when Benedict left the city of Rome, fed up with its depravities and vanities, and made his way to a cave in Subiaco.
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Robert Keim
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A Dim and Lenten Light to Guide Us
Aristotle, Robert Frost, and the narrow way that leads to life
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The Matrimonial Theology of ... Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales show us that England’s most famous medieval poet thought a great deal about marriage.
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The Triumph of the Sacrament
Returning to the great paradox of medieval marriage
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January 2025

The Two Faces of the Middle Ages
The Medieval Year: The Day before the Kalends of February
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Robert Keim
Bitter Medicine and the Wings of the Dove
Further thoughts on paradox in medieval marriage
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Pleasure and Sin in Medieval Marriage
Though monasticism flourished during the Middle Ages as never before or since, and though the era is justly called the Age of Faith, voluntary chastity…
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Without True Leisure There Is No Culture
The Medieval Year: Ninth Day before the Kalends of February
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Married Life in the Middle Ages
The essence of marriage hasn’t really changed; some important aspects of it most certainly have.
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