Death in the Margins

One of my lifelong hobbies includes old manuscripts, especially Medieval ones. There is almost an Indiana Jones adventure quality I feel to looking at these texts which were made with such artistic flair and serious labor. Call me weird, but…

The Price of Trust

I love ‘critical biographies’ of Saints. Hagiography as a literary genre tends to make facile and one-dimensional portraits of our Hallowed Heroes, but critical biographies put color, flesh and blood on the alabaster. One of my favorites is by Frederick…