Some people find their interior life transformed faster than the lifecycle of the sugar snap pea, over the course of a 9-day novena or 3-day retreat. Others after trudging through lent after lent before catching a glimpse of the joyous fruits God has in store
I woke up this morning, poured through my coffee, signed and dated some paperwork and thought–wow, it's Candlemas already! Cue some sorrow over the Christmas season being officially "over" (we still have lights running up our bannister), terror at the fast-approaching season of Septuagesima and consequently Lent, and a kick in the pants to buy… Continue reading Candlemas (or lack thereof) and Marian feasts in Visigothic Spain
Since this weekend marks the feast day of St. Isidore of Seville (April 4th) according to both the old and new liturgical calendars of the Catholic Church, I thought it appropriate to publish some ramblings on how I came to find Isidore as a deserving focus for my foreseeable academic career. In my thesis proposal… Continue reading Isidore: a panegyric of sorts
In my undergraduate honors thesis for the Stanford classics department, I explored the concepts of Gens Florentissima and Gens Fortissima in Isidore of Seville's Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum, a delightful little Latin work about the Visigothic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula and the nation's triumphant (for Isidore) conversion from Arianism to Catholicism.… Continue reading Why Florentissima?
Musings of a medievalist mama 