For doing good, Piers Plowman elevates sober, common labor over the Socratic intellectual practices of Plato’s Symposium and Xenophon’s Symposium. … Read the post Piers Plowman: sober, common labor over symposia of Plato & Xenophon
In despair, a childless duchess prayed to Satan for a child. She then conceived Robert the Devil. He was redeemed through identifying with dogs. … Read the post Robert redeemed his mother’s prayer to Satan to conceive child
Unlike her two saintly sisters, Gregory the Great’s aunt Gordiana married an agricultural steward. He became a plowman, a revered figure in Piers Plowman. … Read the post Gregory the Great’s aunt Gordiana loved man like Piers Plowman
With an atomic theory denying immortality, Lucretius wrongly associated penetration with destruction rather than joy and creating new life. … Read the post Lucretius’s atomic theory lacks bodily penetration & immortality
In The Romance of the Rose, Genius urged men to plowing so as to perpetuate the human species. That’s needed in today’s difficult circumstances. … Read the post Genius urges plowing to perpetuate the human species