Medieval History
So, yesterday (4/22/09) Pope Benedict XVI addressed a general audience in St. Peter's square and took as his theme, Ambrose Autpert, 8th-century monk, abbot of San Vincenzo al Volturno, and tutor of Charlemagne himself. You can watch a bit of it above. The full-text, however, can be found here. Apparently, this is "part of a catechetical series he is giving about great writers of the Church in the Middle Ages." He's already spoken on Bede and Boniface. I wonder who he'll do next? Anyway, I'm just going to throw this out there for you. The sermon's pretty bog-standard to my eyes, though it's interesting how papa manages to take a bit from Autpert and link it to the current global financial crisis. Who said Carolingians weren't relevant when discussing complex financial derivatives?
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Medieval History
Pope Benedict XVI & Ambrose Autpert
So, yesterday (4/22/09) Pope Benedict XVI addressed a general audience in St. Peter's square and took as his theme, Ambrose Autpert, 8th-century monk, abbot of San Vincenzo al Volturno, and tutor of Charlemagne himself. You can watch a bit of it above. The full-text, however, can be found here. Apparently, this is "part of a catechetical series he is giving about great writers of the Church in the Middle Ages." He's already spoken on Bede and Boniface. I wonder who he'll do next? Anyway, I'm just going to throw this out there for you. The sermon's pretty bog-standard to my eyes, though it's interesting how papa manages to take a bit from Autpert and link it to the current global financial crisis. Who said Carolingians weren't relevant when discussing complex financial derivatives?
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Recalling the great European cathedrals of the Middle Ages, Pope Benedict XVI said that the contemplation of art and beauty offers a special way to commune with God. Today, at his weekly general audience in the Vatican's audience hall, the pope gave...
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The other day I started wondering about how to relate my dissertation research on apocrypha in Old English sermons to more contemporary topics. So, on a whim, I returned to a blog post by Michael Peppard that I had read about Pope Benedict XVI's...
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