Vital Remnants Producer Connor Tracy is joined by Dr. Justin Stover, Senior Lecturer of Medieval Latin at the University of Edinburgh, to explore what Russell Kirk calls our “neglected inheritance” from the Middle Ages. In addition to the influence of the Medieval world on America, the two discuss the culture of the Middle Ages and address some of the common misconceptions about the period.

Corresponding Reading  

Chapter 6, pp. 177-219 of Russell Kirk, The Roots of American Order

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Further Reading from the Middle Ages:

• Dante, The Divine Comedy
• Bernardus Silvestris, Cosmographia
• Hugh of Saint Victor, Didascalicon: A Medieval Guide to The Arts
• Alan of Lille, De Planctu Naturae (Lament of Nature)
• Alan of Lille, Anticlaudianus
• Sermons of Bernard of Clairvaux
• The Song of Roland
• The Song Of El Cid
• Beowulf

Further Reading about the Middle Ages

• C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image
• Jean Leclercq, The Love of Learning and The Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture 
• Henri de Lubac, Medieval Exegesis: The Four Senses of Scripture

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Contributors 

Host, Producer, and Editor: Connor Tracy, McConnell Center SBS Coordinator