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Was Medieval Warfare a “Very Great Good”?
Thinking about war and peace with help from John Senior.
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Robert Keim
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The Sword and the Mace
or, War and Peace in the Middle Ages
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Robert Keim
The Medieval Year: The Ides of September, AD 1224
The Medieval Year, a weekly feature of the Via Mediaevalis newsletter, gives us an opportunity to appreciate calendrical artwork from the Middle Ages…
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Robert Keim
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The Spiritual Essence of Knighthood and the Stunning Beauty of Knightly “Ordination”
Knights, chivalry, tournaments, damsels in distress.... Modern entertainment media has kept their memory alive but through caricatures instead of the…
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Robert Keim
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Roland, El Cid, and an Anglo-Saxon Seafarer
More recommendations for medieval poems and their modern translations.
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Robert Keim
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The Medieval Year: Eighth Day before the Ides of September, AD 1224
Labor and leisure as the grape harvest begins.
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Robert Keim
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A (Modern) Reader’s Guide to Medieval Poetry
My recommendations for texts, translations, and reading practices.
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Robert Keim
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What Fire and Sword Cannot Unmake
The classical ancestors of medieval poetry.
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Robert Keim
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August 2024

The Medieval Year: How to Read a Medieval Calendar
And for our end-of-August celebration: the most beautiful harvest poem I've ever read.
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Robert Keim
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“This Book Is Called a Garden Enclosed”
The Psalms were the poetic lifeblood of medieval civilization.
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Robert Keim
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The First Language of the Soul
An introduction to medieval poetry.
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Robert Keim
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The Medieval Year: Tenth Day before the Kalends of September, AD 1224
Otherwise known as Friday, August 23rd, (eight hundred years before) 2024.
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Robert Keim
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