Journey to the heart of the Bolivian Andes in this spellbinding book, where a professor’s unexpected encounter with a shaman on a sacred mountain sparks a transformative pilgrimage of the heart and mind. In August 2022, I traveled to a town in the Bolivian Andes to do research on a pilgrimage to a sacred mountain called Cerro Calvario — the Hill of the Skull. I wanted to keep some distance between me and my work....
Genius Loci: Notes on Places by Vernon Lee has been reissued with a new foreword by Jeremy Bassetti. Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the Franco-British writer Violet Paget (1856-1935). For over 50 years, Paget churned out works of both fiction and nonfiction at the rate of nearly a book a year. Perhaps best remembered today for her supernatural short stories, Paget produced a number of books with essays about travel and place....
The Early Modern World, a collection of essays from the early modern period and edited by Jeremy, is now available. View the table of contents and purchase your copy on Amazon. Some of you know that I am an educator by profession and I often think about strategies to improve student learning in the humanities, which is in a dismal state thanks to the so-called “war on the humanities.” But I also think there are a set of problems, let’s call them micro-problems, driving students away from the humanities and wholly under the control of professors: course materials and teaching methods....
Denounced is the remarkable story of two men whose paths collide as the Holy Office clamps down on Protestantism and the illegal book trade in 16th-century Spain. Denounced is available in print and eBook. Synopsis SPAIN, 1550s. In the bustling port city of Seville, Rodrigo is a qualifier for the Inquisition. His job, to evaluate books and testimony for the stain of Lutheranism. However, he guards a secret that the Holy Office does not know about… that is, until he is denounced as a heretic....