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"As monasteries go, Taizè is young- a full millennium younger than the nearby medieval abbey of Cluny. Moreover, though it now includes 13 Roman Catholic members, Taizè was founded as a Protestant community in 1940. A Swiss theology student named Roger Schutz, then 25, came to France looking...
With the public increasingly unwilling to pay those costs, the U.S. faces hard questions. Can political success still be salvaged from an unwinnable military fight after the series of failures (see following story) that have marked the U.S. enterprise in Iraq? How can the U.S. extract itself without compounding the...
“I think that he’ll bring a combination of micro and macro history that’s really exciting,” Gordon said. “He has a real talent for taking the particulars of medieval history and presenting them in an interesting...
Gordon said he can envision Smail’s creativity contributing to Harvard’s long history of intellectual leadership in the teaching of medieval history.
“[Smail] is at a relatively early stage in his career, but he’s already written two excellent books,” Gordon said. “He is very focused at a micro level on particular places and times, but he also asks large questions...