New Mother Cabrini Statue Next on the Hit List
And regardless, the Italians, like the Irish, were held in such low esteem, they might as well have been black (interesting parallels about our country’s horrible treatment of “out” …
Category: History
Everything You Wanted to Know about Bohemianism
Other dangerous or perverse unconventional groups also arose and were also put down between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. Cathars, Alumbrados, Brethren of the Free Spirit, and witch cults …
Tuesday
Flogging the Middle Ages Chesterton pointed out that every stick is good enough to beat the Catholic Church with. The same could be said about the Middle Ages (for …
Thursday
Kontent from the Kindle As March Madness heats up, it’s interesting to remember what group of people used to dominate the sport. From A Renegade History of the United …
Rominations
Ruminations on the Fall of Rome So holy men left. They left for the desert and became the forerunners of the monks, though these early counter-culture revolutionaries were “in …
Rominations
Ruminations on the Fall of Rome The Anchor Atlas of World History (1974) shows the following “German states” in the areas that comprised the western portion of Roman Empire …
Rominations
Ruminations on the Fall of Rome “he violence of the barbarian invaders of the empire is a literary trope.” Chris Wickham, The Inheritance of Rome. I assume by “trope,” …
Rominations
Ruminations on the Fall of Rome Belloc’s Europe and the Faith highlights two angles of the height and fall of the Roman Empire that do not receive much explicit …
Thursday
Ruminations on the Fall of Rome Belloc wrote, “The Catholic Church was the only subsidiary organism that had risen within the general body of the Roman Empire.” Belloc’s idea …
Wednesday
I’ve pretty much accepted Belloc’s premise that the Roman Empire was an act of Providence: By providing a coherent, unified, stable, and cultured environment, news of the Lord’s birth, …
Thursday
Some things never change. Writing about Bacon’s Rebellion (1676) in his People‘s History, Howard Zinn discusses Nathaniel Bacon’s “Declaration of the People,” saying it “shows a mixture of populist …
Tuesday
Kontent from the Kindle Perhaps the most interesting passage from my Memorial Day Weekend reading. The author is writing about the shocking dearth of archeological remains from approximately 630 …