November 2010
3 posts
Gregory of Tours' declaration of faith
I stumbled upon Gregory of Tours’ History of the Franks while reading The Inheritance of Rome, and find his opening declaration of faith fascinating.
Some background is necessary, but I won’t go into that too much right now.
Suffice it to say that at the time he was writing two of the main thoughts of Christianity were Catholicism (in the west) and Arianism (in the east), and their main point of...
“Since Dutch traders had been coming to Japan for centuries, a number of educated...”
– Return of the Samurai.
From the great Disunion series from the New York Times.