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The theme of the July/August issue is “Chaucer & His Age”. Highlights include:

 

 

  • Joseph Pearce suggests some intriguing parallels between Chaucer’s age and ours.
  • David Lyle Jeffrey teaches “Lessons from the Locker Room on Courtly Love”.
  • Charles J. Kelly, Jr. examines “The Seven Deadly Sins in the Age of Chaucer”.
  • Daniel Kearney elucidates “The Nature of Love and Marriage in Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale”.
  • Jill Kriegel offers some Platonic and Boethian Perspectives of Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls.
  • Lynn D. Zimmerman unwraps the truth in the Second Shepherd’s Play.
  • Susanna Malavasic admires “The Illustrious Geoffrey Chaucer” and the art that he inspired.
  • Susan Treacy makes “The French Connection: Chaucer & Machaut”.
  • John Beaumont tells “The Story of Two Remarkable Priest Converts”, lost at sea following the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania.
  • Fr. Dwight Longenecker remembers “C. S. Lewis and a Young American”.
  • Kevin O’Brien endures “A Chance Encounter” with a young atheist.
  • James Bemis admires the movie, Chariots of Fire.
  • Thomas Howard defends “Dancing Virgins”.
  • Fr. Benedict Kiely preaches magnanimity and the need to become “great souls”.
  • Robert Merchant reviews More Christianity by Fr. Dwight Longenecker.
  • Anne Carson Daly reviews James V. Schall’s The Modern Age.
  • Matthew Levering reviews St. Paul by Pope Benedict XVI.
  • Robert Asch translates “The Doppelganger” by Heinrich Heine.
  • Pavel Chichikov waxes poetical on the sinking and significance of the Titanic.