Word: bodleian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years of training in lockstep. Healy spent four years studying theology at Belgium's Louvain University. Seven years later he went abroad again, in pursuit of a Ph.D. at Oxford, and if there is an invisible monastery in his life, a spiritual refuge, it is there. At the Bodleian Library he worked in a room containing a first edition of Don Quixote, shelved in the same spot where Sir Thomas Bodley, the founder, placed it in 1605. "It gave me a sense of how high I loomed in the large scale of scholarship, and that's good for a young...