Middle Ages
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I just read an interesting perspective from Zack Beauchamp about the interplay between economic freedom and discrimination. He was responding to this piece by John Tomasi, which in turn is based on a book that Tomasi wrote, so I’m about four degrees removed from the source already, but I wanted to respond specifically to Beauchamp’s…
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María Rosa Menocal’s aim in Shards of Love is to trace the origins of what she deems the Romance philological tradition—a tradition steeped in myth, love, longing, and a conversation with the past in the form of memory. She traces this tradition to the medieval lyric, and thus tries to connect Western philology, in its modern…
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