Book Review: Beowulf
“Choose, dear Beowulf, the better part,
eternal rewards. Do not give way to pride.”
– Beowulf. 1759-1760.
Tag: Late Antiquity (313 AD-565 AD)
Book Review: Inquisition by Edward Peters
“False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.”
– Joseph De Maistre
Book Review: The Making of Europe by Christopher Dawson
“For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.”
– Pericles, “Funeral Oration”
Book Review of A History of Philosophy, Vol. II: Medieval Philosophy, from Augustine to Duns Scotus by Fr. Fredrick Copleston, S.J.
“Christians believed first of all, and only afterwards, in the desire to defend, to explain and to understand what they believed, did they develop theology, and in a subordination to philosophy, theology.”
– Fr. Copleston, S.J
Book Review of A General History of the Christian Era: Vol. I The Papacy and The Empire by Fr. Antony Guggenberger, S.J.
“Let not the discourse of the ancients escape thee, for they have learned of their fathers: For of them thou shalt learn understanding, and to give an answer in time of need.”
– Ecclesiasticus 8:11-12
Book Review: The Age of Martyrs by Abbot Giuseppe Ricciotti
“Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance of his holiness.”
– Psalm 96:12
Book Download: The Greek Fathers by Father Adrian Fortescue
What they defended was the Catholic faith that we profess. We, who are the heirs of so great a tradition, ought to know at least something about the story of the long chain that joins us back to the first Whitsunday.
Book Review: The Confessions of Saint Augustine
“Thou touchedst me, and I burned for Thy peace.” – St. Augustine
Book Review: History of the Byzantine State by George Ostrogorsky
“Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.”
– 1 Peter 2:17
Book Review of Jerome: Select Letters
“Nothing is happier than the Christian, for to him is promised the kingdom of heaven: nothing is more toil-worn, for every day he goes in danger of his life.”
– St. Jerome