Bloody Bess
Joseph Pearce2022-06-23T16:50:46+00:00Continuing the series on the history of "true England" we cover the period from the Northern Rebellion in 1569 to the Gunpowder Plot and its aftermath in 1605 and 1606...
What’s New in the St. Austin Review
Joseph Pearce2022-06-20T19:32:36+00:00Joseph Pearce offers a guided tour of the content of the new issue of the St. Austin Review...
Macbeth versus Hamlet
Joseph Pearce2022-06-20T19:06:13+00:00How can the wicked Scottish king be seen as the antithesis of the gloomy Danish Prince? https://www.ncregister.com/blog/macbeth-in-a-nutshell
Walking with Ghosts of Himself
Joseph Pearce2022-06-20T18:58:10+00:00Putting Hilaire Belloc's classic, The Four Men, in a nutshell... https://www.crisismagazine.com/2022/the-four-men-in-a-nutshell
Joyful Hope in the Deep, Dark South
Joseph Pearce2022-06-17T10:54:26+00:00Ladydale Diary Corpus Christi 2022 This week’s diary entry is being written on Thursday, not on Friday as is customary, because I have a film crew arriving tomorrow morning to interview me for a documentary on Chesterton, Tolkien and Lewis. It is being produced by Brasil Paralelo, a Brazilian production company, and my understanding is [...]
A Conversation on English History
Joseph Pearce2022-06-17T10:18:05+00:00Join me and the hosts of the Catholic Conversation as we discuss the history of Catholic England. Our conversation begins at around the 9-minute mark: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-catholic-conversation/id834475946
Shakespeare and Science
Joseph Pearce2022-06-16T16:33:18+00:00Unlike many critics of his plays, Shakespeare knew the crucial difference between physical facts and metaphysical truth... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2022/06/shakespeare-science-joseph-pearce.html
Her Majesty and His Holiness
Joseph Pearce2022-06-16T16:29:03+00:00I am quoted at length in an article, published in Spain, about the platinum jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. (Please forgive the erroneous personal pronouns in the translation.) https://omnesmag.com/actualidad/el-jubileo-de-la-reina-y-su-importancia-para-la-iglesia-catolica/
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Joseph Pearce2022-06-16T16:16:31+00:00I read from the chapter on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in my book, Further Up and Further In: Understanding Narnia... The featured image is Consoling Eustace by Jef Murray.
Poets on Death Row
Joseph Pearce2022-06-16T16:09:28+00:00Beginning a short series on English religious verse, we meet the perfect priest and three poets who would be executed... The portrait of St. Robert Southwell is by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs. I commissioned it to serve as the cover artwork for an issue of the St. Austin Review in 2014. The original is now [...]