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...time of troubles for the church. An inquisition is raging against heretics, casting a dark and menacing shadow over the whole era. The Emperor in Milan and the Pope in Avignon are battling for ascendancy over the Holy Roman Empire. The Emperor, Louis IV, has sent William to the abbot of a rich and powerful Benedictine monastery in Italy on a mission of conciliation. The Franciscan and Adso arrive at the abbey right after the body of a young monk has been discovered. Suicide or murder is suspected. The abbot, aware of William's skills at detection, persuades...
...Greek Orthodox monk. I am here as a research assistant to the Abbot of my monastery, who is a visiting scholar at the Divinity School...
...Cambridge. We were welcomed, at the beginning of the term, by being pelted by snowballs on the street three or four times. Not a day has passed that we have not been ridiculed and mocked on the streets, while walking between various university libraries. Notwithstanding the fact that the Abbot of the monastery is recognized as one of the best-cre-dentialed traditionalist Orthodox writers in the U.S. (and was recently cited as such in a major religious publication in Greece), most of the people with whom we have interacted at the University are either too busy laughing...
...actual fact, the West has always ignored Eastern Christianity. Considering our numbers, it is astounding that the Divinity School, for example, offers so little to Orthodox. My own mentor, and a very close friend of our Abbot (then a doctoral student), Father Georges Florovsky, fought with little success at Princeton to initiate programs in Orthodox studies. Having left Harvard years ago as a professor emeritus, his efforts here apparently left with him. Moreover, when Orthodox scholars do seek to pursue scholarship in the West, they are forced to become what Abbot Chrysostomos calls "Western captives" or, as Father Florovsky said...
Mills chooses to begin her biography of the man whose career Antole Broyard has described as "a brawl between his talent and his exhibitionism" with a dramatic retelling of Mailer's appearance at the murder trial of Jack Henry Abbot, the ex-convict whose writings Mailer had promoted. After recounting the antagonistic press conference, where obscenities and insults were exchanged--a typical situation for the author--Mills summarizes Mailer in a list of promotional headlines, from "Village Voice Co-Founder" to "Husband of Six Wives." One is prepared for a book that merely rehashes sensational events and doesn't delve...