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Cicero on the Virtue, and the Sacrifice, of Friendship
“Since happiness is our best and highest aim, we must, if we would attain it, give our attention to virtue, without which we can obtain neither…
 • Robert Keim
Pleasure, Health, and Human Destiny in the Medieval Herb Garden
This post includes a series of late-fourteenth-century illustrations that testify to the care and attention that peoples of the Middle Ages devoted to…
 • Robert Keim
Friendship, “the Greatest of External Goods”
Premodern wisdom on the joy and beauty of friendship
 • Robert Keim
The Union of Body, Spirit, and Earth in Medieval Medicine
Research into medical practices of the Middle Ages reveals attitudes and techniques that are surprisingly modern.
 • Robert Keim
The Drama of a Late-Medieval Christmas
A mystery play for the Nativity
 • Robert Keim
A Christmas Poem from St. John of the Cross
out of darkness, light
 • Robert Keim
Too Good to Be True?
A Tale of Two Christmases
 • Robert Keim
Learning to See in the Dark
“...64 percent of men and 15 percent of women began self-administering electric shocks when left alone to think...”
 • Robert Keim
A Plea for Darkness in the Temple of God
Reflections on liturgical light
 • Robert Keim
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