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Basil and Gregory
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awelborn
Mike Aquilina has links related to Basil of Caesarea and Gregory Nazianzen, whom we remember today. Including one of the podcasts Mike has done for KVSS in Omaha
Japan Bleg
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awelborn
A long-time reader is heading to Japan to visit her son for a week. She’s looking for suggestions on must-sees and any other advice. Here are the particulars: He is at school in Hikone, on Lake Biwa. In the Shiga prefecture, I think. We’ve been told to head to Nagasaki for the weekend, since there…
Cluny
By
awelborn
Cluny: In Search of God’s Lost Empire is a harder call. It wasn’t wretched, and had plenty of good information, but its omissions and the author’s take on medieval religion make it worth a library checkout, but probably not much more. Cluny is, of course, about the famed monastery of Cluny, established in the 10th…
Marking the Hours
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awelborn
The first one’s easy – because Shawn Tribe already reviewed it over at TLM – the marvelous, instructive, revelatory book by Eamon Duffy, Marking the Hours. Duffy is the historian whose The Stripping of the Altars has provided such an invaluable corrective to the mainstream view of the English Reformation as the answer to the 16th…
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