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St. Louis Jesuits: the peak of their music

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Five recent history articles albeit not in Vietnam Studies

Books in history and, more generally, the humanities are held in much higher regard than articles, and it’s part of my job to read a lot of them. But I generally prefer reading articles over books. One reason is that articles allow for a feel about subject matters beyond your field. Another reason is that it doesn’t take as much time to read them as you do books. (AI, of course, may eventually change all that.)

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Five recent articles on Vietnam studies + one podcast

Previous posts on “recent articles” include one from 2016 and two from 2019. This one is on the following articles:

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The greatest Vietnamese Christmas album

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Is the hymn Lạy Mẹ xin yên ủi about Our Lady of Perpetual Help?

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Kinh Điển: Kierkegaard và Tác Phẩm Một Trong Hai

Thế kỷ thứ 19 rất được học đường các môn văn và sử học tại Mỹ chú ý.  Lý do là thế kỷ đó có rất nhiều biến chuyển to lớn trong tư tưởng cũng như lịch sử phương Tây.  Vì nhiều biến chuyển này vẫn còn ảnh hưởng đến thời nay, nên hàn lâm Hoa Kỳ vẫn nghiên cứu và giảng dậy nhiều lớp về châu Âu trong thời kỳ này, hoặc ảnh hưởng châu Âu đến nơi khác, hay phản ứng từ nơi khác đến châu Âu.  

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My students on Christine de Pizan & Julian of Norwich & St. Perpetua

This student had done an art recreation of Julius Caesar for Great Books I during Fall 2021. This semester she recreated this painting of a late-medieval woman, reproduced on the cover of an Oxford’s World Classics edition of Revelations of Divine Love
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Vietnamese nationalism in a popular hymn about the Sacred Heart of Jesus

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From a devotional text published in 1934. The caption reads, “This is my Sacred Heart that loves humanity so much that it doesn’t refuse them anything.” The implication is that it is up to people to believe and petition the Sacred Heart for their needs.

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A nineteenth-century Vietnamese account of the Lourdes apparitions

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One of the later apparitions to Bernadette ~ pc lourdes-france.org

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