I became fascinated with guilds when I moved to Germany. Being an avid reader of all medieval history I could get my hands on, I was well aware of the Hansa (slang […]
Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master: The Medieval Guild
Know Thyself: The Ship of Thieves
“I am not the person I was.” We hear that a lot, especially when it comes to growing older and, one hopes, wiser. Indeed, we’re not the same person we were. Over […]
Stoic about Time
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is […]
Astronomy and the Quadrivium
Perhaps your first thought, as was mine, is: “How can Astronomy be an ‘art?’” Furthermore, how can Astronomy be called a ‘liberal’ art? From a very interesting (and worth exploring) website called […]
Geometry and the Quadrivium
Whist sitting in school, slaving away with compasses and a ruler, one hardly remembers that geometry is the study of the measurement of the earth. Earth. The thing we sit on, utilize, […]
The History of the All Seeing Eye
What people in the U.S.A. commonly referred to as the “All Seeing Eye” is more appropriately called the “Eye of Providence.” No, not Rhode Island. This would be the more divine providence […]
Mathematics and the Quadrivium
Personally, I struggled with Math in school. Faced with a math test, any math test, I froze, cried, banged my head against the desk, and ultimately gave up. I saw mathematics as […]
The Quadrivium
What scholars call the “foundation of Liberal Arts” – the Trivium – is taught in order that one may expand to other subjects, building upon the skills learned. These subjects have been […]
Trivium: Rhetoric
We’re back with the third part of the Trivium: Rhetoric. Rhetoric is the art of persuasion through communications, either written or spoken. There are always two components to rhetoric – the rhetoric […]
Beethoven’s Last Work – Ode to Joy
As a classically trained musician, I often frame the way I think about the mysteries of the universe in terms of music. I love the quote of Einstein where he says, “I […]
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