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What if you were told that without the Rule of St. Benedict for monks there would be no Western civilization? Hint: It isn’t because monks were not supposed to laugh. For Unauthorized subscribers.

Episode 6: Getting Medieval on the Rule of St. Benedict

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You have heard me talk about how “nation” means a people related by blood, history, language, and religion. But what if a people related by blood, history, and language change their religion? What would induce you to change your ancestral worship for a God you had never heard of until some strangers arrived?

Prof. Rachel Fulton Brown considers these questions on Unauthorized in Medieval History 101 Episode V: “Getting Medieval on the Song of Creation”. The episode study guide is here.

Unauthorized is very pleased to announce CHANNEL ZAMMY, which chronicles the adventures of Zammy the giant sheepadoodle as he goes about his mission to spread love throughout the world.

Medieval History 101: Episode 4: Getting Medieval on the English is now available for subscribers on Unauthorized. The Episode Guide is available here.

But I did just spray temperanillo all over my keyboard and monitor. Dammit, Owen!

By the way, if you want hats like this, unbearablesmerchandise.com. All proceeds go to me and my buddy Ryan, who has a fucked-up back. And I’ve been kicked off Paypal. So, it’s a really good foundation. A lot better foundation than the Clinton Foundation, because instead of focusing on the rape of kids, we focus on keeping it going.

Prof. Rachel Fulton Brown presents Medieval History 101 Episode 3: Getting Medieval on the Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories on Unauthorized.TV. For subscribers only. The episode guide, complete with reference texts and Infogalactic links, is available here.

“The literal sense teaches what happened, the allegorical sense what you should believe, the moral sense what you should do, and the anagogical sense where you are going.”

Medieval History 101, Episode II: Getting Medieval on Sola Scriptura is now live on Unauthorized.tv for subscribers. The episode guide can be found here.

Also new on Unauthorized.tv today is Chuck Dixon on Comics #11, in which The Legend Chuck Dixon explains the difference between work-for-hire and creator-owned in the comics industry, and how this relates to working with Marvel and DC.

Unauthorized.tv is pleased to present Episode I in Prof. Rachel Fulton Brown’s Medieval History 101 series, entitled Getting Medieval on Medieval History. The history series is for subscribers, but the first episode is free for everyone. The course guide and a recommended reading list is available here. This should further demonstrate Unauthorized’s commitment to continuously raising the intellectual bar in the service of the Good, the Beautiful, and the True. In my experience, one of the best ways to avoid being deceived is to know history. There is, as we are told, very little that is new under the sun, and the deceptions that are being put into practice today have often been utilized in the past.

And if you’re not a subscriber yet, but you want to support more of these video projects, you can get on board here.

UPDATE: The supporting blog post, with references.

Unauthorized historian RFB points out that the problem of whom to believe is as old as history:

Last week I broke my sabbatical seclusion to attend a panel that my colleagues in the Department of History had organized on “Understanding the Trump Phenomenon.” The panelists covered a range of themes: climate change denialism, white nationalism, the global failure of capitalism, the latent illiberalism of American culture, and world-wide yearnings towards totalitarianism—all the usual -isms. And then they opened the floor to questions. Like a good fencer, I got my hand up first and said something about the need to think of American culture in more regional and long-range terms, particularly the differences in conceptions of liberty that David Hackett Fisher has shown to be in play, but it was already too late. The room was primed to descend into pessimism and despair, although since we’re talking academics here—fellow professors and graduate students in History for the most part—it was subtle and came out mainly in the kinds of questions asked.

One question in particular had my colleagues on the panel stumped. “How,” one of our graduate students asked, after the conversation had ranged round the many ways in which the progressive liberal experiment in America seemed doomed, “do we know what news sources we can trust anymore?” Her voice rose as she spoke, in that way that I have regularly heard my friends’ voices rise over the past few weeks; even men’s voices go up as their anxieties kick in and they start pleading with the universe to make the results of the election go away. “How do we know what news sources we can trust anymore?” My colleagues made a stab at it: “Go with sources that you have to pay a subscription for.” But mainly they sat and shook their heads, clearly at a loss. They wanted to give the students an answer, but were distressed that they couldn’t name news sources that they themselves trusted fully, not even The New York Times. “It is a wild wild world out there,” they seemed to be saying. “Even we aren’t sure whom we can believe.”

Read the whole thing there. It’s intriguing, particularly as concerns the intellectual rivalry between William, a canon of the Augustinian house of Newburgh, and Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Unauthorized subscribers of a literary bent may be interested in watching my first Unauthorized book review, which is of Haruki Murakami’s Killing Commendatore. It’s very good, and very much indicative of the great Japanese novelist’s return to form.

If you’re interested in picking up a copy after watching this, we have the hardcover available on the Castalia Direct store at a discount or you can preorder the paperback for $12.99.