Lesley-Anne Dyer Williams
Professor of the Great Books at Memoria College, Lover of the Middle Ages, Speaker and Writer
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Blog
- An Advent Image Is Worth a Thousand WordsThis season, we’re invited to see symbols of the Nativity not as quaint supplements to doctrinal truth but as robust… Read more: An Advent Image Is Worth a Thousand Words
- Plato, Mathematician and Myth-MakerThe Republic, The Symposium, The Phaedrus, The Apology, and The Phaedo––these are just a few of the works of Plato that were not widely… Read more: Plato, Mathematician and Myth-Maker
- Poetry as a Quadrivial Art?“That ‘Poetry is the cradle of philosophy’ is axiomatic”(John of Salisbury, Metalogicon I.22). It is a truth generally acknowledged that… Read more: Poetry as a Quadrivial Art?
- The Quadrivium and the Stakes for Ordering the Mathematical ArtsFyodor Bronnikov, Pythagoreans’ Hymn to the Rising Sun, 1869. Oil on canvas. Legend has it that Pythagoras sentenced the first person… Read more: The Quadrivium and the Stakes for Ordering the Mathematical Arts
- The Medievalism of Dorothy L. SayersOn October 14, 1920, the words, “domina, magistra” were spoken by the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University at the… Read more: The Medievalism of Dorothy L. Sayers