Mark DelCogliano

I knew it, but given the goodness of this one and a billion other things on my plate, it was one less thing to do.

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I read Manzoni about a year ago, in English—great novel! (I read Lamberton when I wrote my dissertation 50 years ago.)

I hope OUP replaces the volume for you.

I think I know which panel, maybe.

You were much worse :-).

Yeah, Louise de la Vallière tested my patience.

I read this, and all the sequels, at the height of the COVID lockdown in 2020-2021. Took me to 17th century France and it was laugh-out-loud fun. What a storyteller!

Hang in there, amice!

Unfortunately Latin and Greek are struggling at UST, treading water only because some junior seminarians take it.

Like Roger, I would guess Julius I. His letters expertly translated by Glen Thompson for CUA Press.

FYI, I am aiming to email all decisions on NAPS 2026 proposals by the end of this week.

A missed opportunity....

Yeah, I didn't choose that. Working out kinks in our process apparently.

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Current view.

You just solved future contingents.

Who should I thank if I know tomorrow today?

All faculty consultations about some new project are basically this: I don’t have a strong opinion, I support those who want to do it, I personally don’t want to be involved, and there’s no way I am leading it.

hey NAPS members! you should have gotten an email from President David Brakke asking for your honest thoughts on what is important to you in our conference we we can find a more economically sustainable path! make your voice heard!

didn't get the email? check your membership status!

Evagrius & Origenist controversy: Elizabeth Clark, Jon Dechow
Evagrius & monasticism: G. Bunge, Driscoll, C. Stewart, L. Dysinger

It's been about 15 since I've followed Evagrian scholarship closely, and this list inevitably reflects my own interests, but here it is:
Reconstituing Evagrian corpus: Joseph Muyldermans, Antoine Guillaumont, Paul Géhin

Can you narrow down your interest? There are many ways of approaching Evagrius and the scholarship reflects this.

An indispensable resource: evagriusponticus.net/index.htm

"'Do not despise' he took from common usage, some people being accustomed to say, I despised so-and-so, that is, I was pleased to see him struggling with problems." Theodoret of Cyrus, Commentary on Obadiah (trans. C. Hill, p. 131). So the ancients knew about schadenfreude.

This seems like a watershed moment regarding the cultural hegemony of English and the advent of reliable AI translation. bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.05...

Agreed!

I feel a hyphen joining old and ass would have been helpful. Now I am wondering what ass media is and how it becomes old.

Fascinating observation. And the Catholic tendency to elevate Mary to co-redemptrix is a kind of natural terminus of the Nicene impulse.