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Recursive Origins
Writing at the Transition to Modernity
William Kuskin
In Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity, William Kuskin asks us to reconsider the relationship between literary form and historical period. As Kuskin observes, most current literary histories of medieval and early modern English literature hew to period, presenting the Middle Ages and modernity as discrete, separated by a heterodox and unstable fifteenth century. In contrast, the major writers of the sixteenth century—Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, the Holinshed Syndicate, and their editors—were intense readers of the fifteenth century and consciously looked back to its history and poetry as they shaped their own. Kuskin examines their work…
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Explorations in the Theology of Benedict XVI
Edited by John C. Cavadini
Benedict XVI’s writing as priest-professor, bishop, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and now pope has shaped Catholic theological thought in the twentieth century. In Explorations in the Theology of Benedict XVI, a multidisciplinary group of scholars treat the full scope of Benedict’s theological oeuvre, including the Augustinian context of his thought; his ecclesiology; his theologically grounded approach to biblical exegesis and Christology; his unfolding of a theology of history and culture; his liturgical and sacramental theology; his theological analysis of political and economic developments; his use of the natural law in ethics and…
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TLS reviews A. C. Spearing's MEDIEVAL AUTOGRAPHIES
Helen Cooper reviews A. C. Spearing’s Medieval Autographies: The “I” of the Text in the June 14, 2013, issue of The Times Literary Supplement. Cooper says, “… here, [Spearing] not only extends his work [in Textual Subjectivity] to a new series of texts, but grounds it in another ‘supergenre,’ the…
AMERICA calls SACRED DREAD a "remarkable achievement"
Brenna Moore’s new book Sacred Dread: Raïssa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the French Catholic Revival (1905–1944) received a stellar review in America Magazine. Catherine Cornille called the book “a remarkable achievement, especially considering it is the author’s first book.” Cornille goes on to say, “It weaves history, biography…
