"This seeming paradox reflects two concurrently pervasive - and strikingly contradictory - perspectives. One is to be engrossed by the past, the other to dispense with it."
The Past is a Foreign Country - Revisited
By David Lowenthal
We are delighted to welcome Catholic author and writer Fiorella de Maria. To find out more about her, and for links to all her titles visit her website:
https://www.fiorellademaria.com/
In this episode we discuss the issues that the modern age has in the ways in interacts with history, from sanitising the past in books and films to tearing down statues.
Works Mentioned:
See No Evil: A Father Gabriel Mystery by Fiorella de Maria
The Abolition of Women by Fiorella de Maria (written under Fiorella Nash)
Poor Banished Children by Fiorella de Maria
"History Versus the Historians" Lunacy and Letters by G.K Chesterton
The Past is a Foreign Country - Revised Edition by David Lowenthal
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
The Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
"On The Incarnation" Introduction to Athanasius by C.S. Lewis
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C.S. Lewis
We'll Never Tell Them by Fiorella de Maria
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Publishing Catholic Voices with Mary Finnegan, Deputy Editor at Wiseblood Books
The Spirit of Adventure in Swallows and Amazons
The Great Expectations and Romantic Ideals of Dickens's Heroes
This Mortal Coil: An Album of Loss and Subtraction, ‘Offerings’ by Typhoon
Poetic Vision: The Catholic Case for Everyday Poetry
The Reed of God and the Potent Emptiness of Advent
Childish or Childlike: Labyrinth and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on Growing Up
The Mystery and Manners of Flannery O’Connor
The Sublime Mystery of Thin Places: Numinous Experiences and Liminal Spaces
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