The Eyes, the Heart, and Perfect Love
. . Dante and Beatrice. Petrarch and Laura. . We had just finished a unit on Medieval and Renaissance literature, and my students found themselves swept away by love stories [...]
Bonds of Friendship
Excerpt from Therein Lies the Pearl - Caen, Normandy - December 1060 - Melisende calls upon her friend Cecile for advice about love and revenge. . . “He’s got the [...]
Publication of “In Silence Cries the Heart”
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” . (George RR. Martin, A Dance With Dragons) . If George R.R. Martin’s [...]
King Edward the Confessor: Deity or Dotard?
After the mysterious death of their father in 1057, Edgar the Aetheling and his two sisters (pious Margaret and Cristina) found themselves in a precarious position at the court of [...]