Medlem: Romanus

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NøgleordClassical Studies > Rome (377), Classical Studies > Hellas (366), Biography (242), Spirituality (180), History > Medieval (156), Church History > 19th century > France (144), 2007-10 (143), DVD (140), French Revolution (133), Church History > Middle Ages (121) — se alle nøgleord

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YndlingsforfattereDante Alighieri, Charles Allen, William Brodrick, Gabriel Bunge, Anton Chekhov, William Dalrymple, Marcel De Corte, Colin Dexter, P. C. Doherty, John Donne, Maurice Druon, Gerald Durrell, T. S. Eliot, Shusaku Endo, Patrick Leigh Fermor, A. J. Festugière, Charles De Foucauld, George MacDonald Fraser, Helene Hanff, Irénée Hausherr, Gilbert Highet, Homer, Horace, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, C. S. Lewis, Livy, Amin Maalouf, Jan Morris, John Henry Newman, John Julius Norwich, Wilfred Owen, Louis-Edouard-Desire Pie, Josef Pieper, Plato, Barbara Pym, Jean Raspail, Jacqueline de Romilly, C. J. Sansom, Siegfried Sassoon, Sèneca, Georges Simenon, St. Thomas Aquinas, J. R. R. Tolkien, Qiu Xiaolong, Akira Yoshimura (Fælles favoritter)

YndlingsboghandlerAvol's Bookstore, Blackwell Oxford, Borders - Madison West, Bouquinerie St-Denis, Boutique de l'Histoire, Carraig Books, Dubray Books - Dun Laoghaire, Eleftheroudakis, Frugal Muse West, Half Price Books - St. Paul, Harvard Book Store, La Procure, Librairie du Musee du Louvre, Librairie Mona Lisait, Libreria Francese di Roma, Libreria Internazionale San Paolo, Libreria Leoniana, Loome Theological Booksellers, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, McIntyre and Moore Booksellers, Midway Used & Rare Books, Naughton's Booksellers, Oxfam Bookshop (St Giles, Oxford), Powell's - Hyde Park, Powell's - Lakeview, St Philip's Books

andre favoritterArt Institute of Chicago

Om migRoman Catholic priest. Due to two different academic formations, in Late Roman History and in Theology, I find myself currently teaching Classical History and Literature and Church History to future priests.

Om mit bibliotekI own all the items listed here. More or less reluctantly, I have included some DVDs, CDs, periodicals, maps and catalogues, which are an integral part of my working library. The book listing shows also other particular interests of mine, some of them clearly related to my teaching (Desert Fathers, French Revolution, 19th-century French Catholicism), but others that are no more than fascinating asides (Mughal India, the British Raj, the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, the English "War Poets," historical mysteries...)

This listing is a work in progress, not only because I keep revising and trying to improve it, but also because I keep getting books - far too many, to the point where the unread widely outnumber the read ones. Yes, that is the sad truth: I haven't read everything on my shelves. And yet, I have never acquired anything that I didn't intend to read - telling myself that one day I will finally read it, or search for something in it, or at least open it at random to snatch a bit of knowledge or of wisdom. Perhaps I have been too optimistic, because by now it looks as if multiple lifetimes will not be enough... My excuse ? That I try to follow the advice of St. Edmund of Abingdon to his monks : "Study as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow..."

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2009, July 22 - a milestone reached : 4,000 items catalogued !
2009, September 16 - Autumn cleaning of the shelves... the dross is going away...
2009, October 31 - It's a losing battle. The shelves are filling up again... My DVD collection has been entered into the Take11 site, and one day will entirely migrate there.
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"Disce omnia, videbis postea nihil esse superfluum" [ Hugh of St. Victor ]

"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated. Some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation; and His hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again, for that library where every book shall lie open to one another..." [ John Donne ]

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours..." [ Alan Bennett ]

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Læser for øjeblikketThe prayer of the presence of God af Augustin Guillerand
The pursuit of happiness, God's way : living the Beatitudes af Servais Pinckaers, o.p.
Founding faith : how our founding fathers forged a radical new approach to religious liberty af Steven Waldman