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The other day, I mentioned Charles Oman’s Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic and his description Tiberius Gracchus. Here is the brilliant conclusion to his chapter on the revolutionary…
Time once again for #MelanchthonMonday! This is the third installment dealing with a petitionary poem by Joachim Camerarius and its Nachleben. In Part 1, we looked at the poem itself.…
Thus British military historian Charles Oman in the incipit of Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic (1902): There was a time, not so very long ago, when the taunt…
One of my sons is reading Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” for school this week. Not having ever read it myself, I decided to do so, despite my deep…
Time for “Melanchthon Monday”! Last week I introduced a poem by Melanchthon’s friend, Joachim Camerarius. Here is the poem again, first in Latin: In tenebris nostrae, et densa caligine mentis,…
Time for another “Melanchthon Monday”! Now, you may be surprised, given that today’s poem is not (um) by Melanchthon. But wait! It still works! However, you won’t see just how…
August 10 marks the commemoration of the martyrdom of St. Lawrence, burned alive on the gridiron in the third century. He is the subject of a fascinating and frequently macabre…
For today’s installment of “Melanchthon Mondays” has us moving from secular back to sacred matters. The following poem is one of several prayers in verse found among Melanchthon’s poetry. The…
I know, I know–I still owe one more post on Burke eviscerating fantasist utopian “justice” lunatics. I’m saving up my energy for that one. In the meantime, I’ve also been…
This one’s for the John Wayne fans. Our poem for today’s edition of “Melanchthon Mondays” is on a similar theme to last week’s, but this time no particular poet is…
