by Jonathan Bennett | Essays
First a bestseller and now a prestige television series, A Gentleman in Moscow invites us to believe that grace and civility might yet survive the twentieth century’s great undoing. Picture Credits: Amazon Some months ago, I read A Gentleman in Moscow during a...
by Jonathan Bennett | Essays
Jonathan Bennet talks about surefooted stances in the world of shoes and the not-so-surefooted stances of those who argue about them. Among the lesser church councils of the thirteenth century—those trivial, haphazard regional gatherings of abbots and prelates...
by Jonathan Bennett | Essays
In the Angel of the Archive series by Jonathan Bennett, this one is about a footnote that baffled generations. In 1723, a minor German philosopher named Johann Andreas Grüber published a dense metaphysical and epistemological treatise entitled De Tenebris Rationis...
by Jonathan Bennett | Art
Jonathan writes about a mythic book with marginalia that might reveal more than any book today. What kind of an Ironist are You? Take the quiz and find out. It is well known—at least among those who subscribe to obscure theological journals—that Anselmo of Bruges held...
by Jonathan Bennett | Art
Jonathan revives the myth of an angel who collects the edges of the written world. What kind of an Ironist are You? Take the quiz and find out. Among the minor curiosities of the early Rhineland monastic tradition there exists a nearly forgotten medieval legend,...
