The Battle of Lepanto

October is the 450th anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto. If you subscribe to Chronicles, you can read this classic by Roberto De Mattei on the battle. @chesterbelloc3 @Paleocrat @emeriticus @LepantoInst https://t.co/Ef1sFm2DHs

— John Howting (@howtingmi) October 28, 2021

Tom Gallagher's Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die

The most provocative idea in Tom Gallagher's biography of Salazar is not that we should adopt some version of corporatism today but that **we already have**. https://t.co/mzxP6G2DzA pic.twitter.com/Lgjt5C8FFF

— Helen Andrews (@herandrews) August 4, 2021

Since we’re discussing Salazar for some reason, I highly recommend Tom Gallagher’s balanced biography.

Review by @herandrews here: https://t.co/hzsgf7kRhn

— PEG (@pegobry) August 4, 2021

Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die

A Pistol Duel in 1896 France

Pistol duel between two men in France 🇫🇷 1896pic.twitter.com/Udeb3IeyWy

— Traditionalism revival (@trad_revival) June 30, 2021

Learn from History

The Finnish Civil war, along with Wrangel’s Land reform in Crimea, teases a alternative outcome were Agrarian and Military relations could have lead to White victory in Russia.

White victory in Finland was a victory of the rural country over the cities. pic.twitter.com/nxHWTS3HG1

— Irkutyanin (@Irkutyanin1) June 8, 2021

Another Legacy of an Imperial Papacy

Little known fact - this is the stone (from the old basilica) on which, Christmas 800 AD, Charlemagne was crowned by the Pope pic.twitter.com/HMbfrn89Kc

— Eduard Habsburg (@EduardHabsburg) May 14, 2021

Mercenaries in the Ancient World

Mercenary fighting was big business in the ancient world. (Remember that Xenophon and his men were hired out for their Persian expedition, because Greeks had good reputation as soldiers).

Ancient tooth debunks a 2,500-year-old claim. https://t.co/YgQx9EXpi7 via @greekcitytimes

— QuintusCurtius (@QuintusCurtius) May 13, 2021

The Connection Between Baroque and Folk Music

In this video, hear from Andrew Downing—co-curator of our upcoming concert—on the relationship between baroque and folk music, and how he arranged classics from Toronto's 1960s #Yorkville scene. Learn more at https://t.co/gPMZKaaykMhttps://t.co/UN0yZCZD09

— Tafelmusik (@Tafelmusik) April 11, 2021

What Empire Can Manage a Personal Autocracy?

Is this distinction really that useful?

The Habsburgs sustained their rule by way of a bureaucratic autocracy, not a personal one. https://t.co/kP20cez5mE

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) February 25, 2021

"Asceticism"?

There are few I disagree with so much while finding their writing so interesting as @BrankoMilan

Here he dismisses asceticism as a medieval relic without noticing how it stalks industrial modernity - work, leisure etc, just not consumerist ideology. Discussed in Ch16 of my book https://t.co/1ebJK4pbOC

— Chris Smaje (@csmaje) February 20, 2021

Manceaux Dueling Pistols

#Brownells own Caleb Savant & the legendary Steve O are back at #RockIslandAuctionCompany checking out an elaborate pair of presentation dueling #pistols made by Jules Manceaux in 1843! Don't miss this cool bit of #history!https://t.co/LcDnAeqqjb

— Brownells, Inc. (@BrownellsInc) February 20, 2021

Beethoven, Cultural Revolutionary?

The Fallacy of Guilt by Association

Facism and bad geneaology.

A thread prompted by @doctorow on the crossovers between organic-pastoral ideologies & fascism https://t.co/dBZ4PDoSV7 acknowledging @Leigh_Phillips

— Chris Smaje (@csmaje) February 5, 2021

Rise of the West by William McNeill

“While honest observers admit the costs of Western expansion, West-o-phobes see all Western expansion as pernicious imperialism. McNeill squares the circle with historical evidence and logical explanations.” https://t.co/huGxLViUcD

— Intellectual Takeout (@intellectualTO) January 22, 2021

The Beginning of Farming in Europe

A Global Movement for Localised Food and Farming: The beginning of agriculture in Europe https://t.co/oMRROM2fih (via https://t.co/WyvZg9FxaN) pic.twitter.com/1ZxEJ3vItt

— Post Carbon Institute (@postcarbon) December 4, 2020

Table Debates

True Friend of the Church?

It’s a testament to the late Rabbi Sacks’s intellectual generosity and honesty that his challenge to the standard Catholic account of faith and reason often ends up reading as a lament for its loss.

May his memory be for a blessing.

My latest. https://t.co/Zu4EHtemv8

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) December 9, 2020

The challenge was serious, to be clear. The God of the Bible, Sacks contended, was lost in the bargain of Saint Paul’s ambition to spread his newfound faith to the Greco-Roman sphere. More to the point, God was lost in translation. The Greek language, with its left-to-right script, per Sacks, tends toward abstraction and universalization, whereas Hebrew is fundamentally a “right-brained” language, tending toward narrative and particularity. The result was that the West received an abstract, theoretical version of a supremely narrativistic deity.

The Hebrew Bible, Sacks believed, has no “theory” of being itself, of natural law or of political regimes. What it does offer are stories that deal with things like creation, morality, and politics “from multiple perspectives, at a level of subtlety and ambiguity closer to literature” than philosophy. The synthesis—the attempt to Hellenize the Bible and the teachings of Jesus—was an imposition, in Sacks’s view. And it was precisely because the God of the philosophers was so distant and inaccessible, Sacks thought, that the early Church had to posit a God-man as man’s bridge to God.

Sacks was, in truth, a pure anti-metaphysicist. In his 2011 book, The Great Partnership: Science, Religion and the Search for Meaning, he declared: “We cannot prove that life is meaningful and that God exists.” As a philosophy undergraduate at Cambridge, he recounted, he was thrilled by his atheist teachers’ demolition of the classical proofs for God, which he’d always considered a kind of cheap sleight of hand.

Does Western rationalism find its source in medieval scholasticism, after the state had started to rebel against Christendom and the intellectual elites starte do capture that intellectual institution of Christendom, the university? Or is it more a problem of practical atheism spreading thanks to mass culture and the agency of the elites? Blaming St. Paul is really a cheap shot, since St. Paul himself would repeat that the Christian Mystery is the summit of salvation history and God's relationship with His people. And such a Christianity does exist, even if it is obscured by other things, in the Christian East. So how much of an ally was Rabbi Sacks, as opposed to being an advocate of Judaism in what is left of a Christian society?

Britons and Anglo-Saxons

I'm pleased to announce that the second edition of my Britons and Anglo-Saxons: Lincolnshire AD 400–650 (2020) has now been published and is available to buy — more details here: https://t.co/66fTTlTmFk :) pic.twitter.com/TB5lX4NpXI

— Dr Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) December 1, 2020

Published through Lulu.

Something on the Roman Empire

Controversial?

What have the Romans ever done for us? Harry Sidebottom, author of The Return, considers who benefitted from Roman imperialist expansion - and who didn't. In #Historia now:https://t.co/eERBVcxMaR#AncientRome #histfic #history pic.twitter.com/FKXcWLhW41

— Historia - The HWA (@HistoriaHWA) November 29, 2020

Rebranding Rule

"The triumph of William (of Orange) and of Whig history was also a consequence of a systematic endeavor at the time to effect a dominance of England's...culture. The 1688 Revolution...involved the most relentless and organized propaganda campaign that England had ever witnessed." pic.twitter.com/z5zSzx97YP

— Carolina Cavalier (@DixiePlanter) November 23, 2020

Yale University Press

Reminds Me of the Movie Black '47

Trailer for that movie here.

#Museum30 our #Famine pot needed #restoration before it was put on display. The Great Famine #Ireland began in 1845-population of #Ireland decreased by c.25% due to starvation, disease &emigration #Workhouse #3DModel #Donegal @DonegalCoArchiv @magnifyzoology @IrishWorkhouseC pic.twitter.com/iOFZaK3t2i

— Donegal County Museum (@Donegalcomuseum) November 21, 2020

Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior by Catherine Hanley

"Catherine Hanley’s accessible biography lifts Matilda from between the lines of recorded history to gives us a fascinating portrait of a woman who did not need to rule to be remembered." - Timothy D. Lusch for @ubookman: https://t.co/VrHjuURCsw pic.twitter.com/dkPc4wVLuR

— Russell Kirk Center (@KirkCenter) November 10, 2020

Yale University Press