Month: June 2007
Ewald’s sunny little room
“Stories of God” is an early collection by Rilke (he was 23 when he wrote it) inspired by a journey to Russia and the religious sentiment and folk l...
Theophilus the hapless
Not all who are mentioned in the Sayings of the Desert Fathers are hermits. Theophilus, archbishop of Alexandria, plays the foil of torpid authority against ere...
Private property
The concept of private property has a paradoxical career. On the one hand it is held sacrosanct in developed economies as well as primitive autocracies. In the ...
Leonardo on art and solitude
Art, especially painting, is often the product of imitation, but usually of predecessors and works held in high esteem by cultural authorities. But at critical ...
Hildegard’s advice
Hildegard of Bingen is one of those few attractive historical personalities who combines energy and piety, creativity and practicality, feistyness toward author...