The Secret Archives of the Vatican - Maria Luisa Ambrosini and Mary Willis
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 The Secret Archives of the Vatican - Maria Luisa Ambrosini and Mary Willis
Newest Review: ... strictly relative to time and place, which is surely not a position to be espoused by someone who seems to be a fairly ... more  ... conservative Catholic. There's some mealimouthedness about Galileo and Bruno as well. Outnumbering such passages, however, are dozens of wonderful little historical sketches and vignettes: the monks of Western Ireland who cast themselves off into the Atlantic in coracles with a few days' supply of food and water only, and the possibility that the almost unique wheel on an Incan child's toy was the work of one of these; the Emperor Heliogabalus racing an elephant-drawn quadriga on Vatican Hill; the scarlet-edged...more |
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The Secret Archives of the Vatican - Maria Luisa Ambrosini and Mary Willis: Holy Secrets (342 words)
by - written on 03/08/00 (Very useful, 52 readings)
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A very enjoyable book, marrying the history of the Catholic Church with that of the Vatican Archives very happily. It's annoying in places: for example, it tries to partly excuse the practice of castrating young boys for the Vatican choir by asking what current practices will be regarded with equal horror in a century's time: this ignores the very strong possibility that the castration would be seen as far worse than current practices, quite besides seeming to assume that moral values are strictly relative to time and place, which is surely not a position to be espoused by someone who seems to be a fairly conservative Catholic. There's some mealimouthedness ... Read the complete review
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