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John Ritzema

January 02, 2024
England and The Papacy in the Early Middle Ages Benjamin Savill Oxford University Press, £83, 352 pages Relations between England and the papacy famously go back to the early beginnings of both the English nation and the English Church, at least as far as the official mythologising of each would have it. “Non angli,”  quipped
August 31, 2023
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth Keiron Pim Granta, £25, 544 pages It is easiest to imagine Joseph Roth – the most elegaic writer of interwar Europe – hunched over some Stammtisch and scribbling. Whether as a young aspiring author in the newborn Austrian republic, or as the august and dazzlingly talented sot of his
February 01, 2023
The Word: On the Translation of the Bible John Barton Allen Lane, £25, 320 pages The tricky business of translating sacred scripture from the original into other languages is older even than Christianity itself. The book of Nehemiah suggests that when the Jewish exiles were able to return from their long captivity in Babylonia in
October 01, 2022
The late Roberto Calasso may have been train-ed more for the studia humanitatis than for God’s kingdom, but the prodigious Florentine author spent a lifetime procuring marvels new and old from the treasure-house of literature
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