Workbench
Things to be thinking about during my brief, daily sessions of writing; the big picture; musings; things that it would be nice to be working on.
Studies
1. The Virgin Mary and the Art of Prayer, a study of the history and practice of saying the Hours of the Virgin Mary from its origins in the monasteries of the eleventh century to its standardization following the Council of Trent. In five chapters.
2. A commentary on the Song of Songs. Possibly in the voice of the Virgin Mary.
Translations
1. John of Garland's Epithalamium beate Marie virginis (ed. Antonio Saiani, 1995), using my transcriptions of British Library, Cotton Claudius A.x, and Oxford, Bodleian, Digby 65.
2. Jacobus de Voragine's Mariale de laudibus deiparae virginis
3. Pseudo-Albert the Great, Mariale Super missus est
Reading
1. Jan Mombaer's Rosetum exercitiorum spiritualium for what it has to say on the experience of praying the Psalms.
2. Pseudo-Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum morale as a handbook for the training of character.
3. María de Ágreda, The Mystical City of God, trans. Fiscar Marison, 4 vols. [finished reading August 2014].
4. Augustine of Hippo, Exposition of the Psalms, trans. Maria Boulding, 6 vols.
5. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
6. Aristotle, starting with the books on logic and ethics
Courses to consider as sources for possible books
1. "Tolkien: Medieval and Modern"
2. "Mary and Mariology"
3. "The Trivium: Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric"
4. "The Seven Deadly Sins in the Medieval Care of Souls and Modern Psychology"
Studies
1. The Virgin Mary and the Art of Prayer, a study of the history and practice of saying the Hours of the Virgin Mary from its origins in the monasteries of the eleventh century to its standardization following the Council of Trent. In five chapters.
2. A commentary on the Song of Songs. Possibly in the voice of the Virgin Mary.
Translations
1. John of Garland's Epithalamium beate Marie virginis (ed. Antonio Saiani, 1995), using my transcriptions of British Library, Cotton Claudius A.x, and Oxford, Bodleian, Digby 65.
2. Jacobus de Voragine's Mariale de laudibus deiparae virginis
3. Pseudo-Albert the Great, Mariale Super missus est
Reading
1. Jan Mombaer's Rosetum exercitiorum spiritualium for what it has to say on the experience of praying the Psalms.
2. Pseudo-Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum morale as a handbook for the training of character.
3. María de Ágreda, The Mystical City of God, trans. Fiscar Marison, 4 vols. [finished reading August 2014].
4. Augustine of Hippo, Exposition of the Psalms, trans. Maria Boulding, 6 vols.
5. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
6. Aristotle, starting with the books on logic and ethics
Courses to consider as sources for possible books
1. "Tolkien: Medieval and Modern"
2. "Mary and Mariology"
3. "The Trivium: Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric"
4. "The Seven Deadly Sins in the Medieval Care of Souls and Modern Psychology"