December 19, 2011

Adam Kirsch | Mysteries and Masterpieces | Harvard Magazine

Adam Kirsch | Mysteries and Masterpieces: The latest stage in the “American conquest of the Middle Ages” | Harvard Magazine

“The combination of these worldviews produced some strange syntheses—pagan, erotic poetry written by priests, Biblical stories retold as Homeric epics. After exploring these volumes, the Middle Ages are sure to strike the reader as more familiarly human, and more exotically remote, than ever before.”