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The Story of St. Michael in Medieval Art (opens the original)
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St. Michael’s Sword against Satan’s Machines (opens the original)
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Exciting Announcement: A Print Edition of My Substack Newsletters (opens the original)
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Chesterton, Medieval Poetry, and the Life-Changing Magic of Fairyland (opens the original)
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The (Medieval?) Origin of Fairy Tales (opens the original)
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Who wrote Cinderella? No one knows. It’s one of the most recognizable and beloved stories in all of Western culture, and it has no author. But does that mean it has no origin? On the one hand, we can delight in the fact that Cinderella seems to have emerged organically from the collective storytelling consciousness of Greco-Roman-Judeo-Christian civilization, but on the other, we should not think of Cinderella—along with Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and all the rest—as something that has simply
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