In this conversation with Rachel Fulton Brown, we undertake a wide-ranging conversation about history and liberal learning, ranging from Herodotus, Augustine, and Martianus Capella to McLuhan and MacIntyre with many stops in between. Among the questions we consider: How does the Christian approach to liberal learning—and history within it—stand both at odds and in parallel with the ancient understanding? How is history always opposed to abstraction? And what are the frames that can guide (or derail) the writing of professional history and our personal histories?

Links of Potential Interest
Brown's U. Chicago Website
Rachel Fulton Brown, From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800-1200
Rachel Fulton Brown, History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person
Rachel Fulton Brown, Mary and the Art of Prayer: The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thought
Rachel Fulton Brown at First Things
Fencing Bear at Prayer and here
"The Forge of Tolkein" (Lectures)
Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession
Marshall McLuhan, The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time

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