About Carolyn Watson

Dr. Carolyn Watson is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Furman University. She is the co-author of The Egerton Genesis, and has contributed to Gesta, the Southeastern College Art Conference Review, and Life and Learning XXIII: Proceedings of the Twenty-Third University for Life Conference at the University of San Francisco, 2013. Her latest book, a study of a fourteenth-century Roman missal entitled The Winter Missal of Arnold of Rummen: Huis van het boek Ms. 10.A.14, is to be published by Brill later this year or early in 2024.

Antidote to the American Dream: Cardinal Mindszenty’s “Memoirs”

By |2023-08-06T21:28:28-05:00August 7th, 2023|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Communism, Fascism, Foreign Affairs|

József Cardinal Mindszenty's memoir is an epic of the great suffering of the Hungarian nation and of this man’s participation in it, out of his love for his people, his Church, and his God. In addition to the cruelties of totally repugnant totalitarianism, he endured abandonment by the Church, culminating in heartbreaking treatment by the [...]

A Day of Reckoning: Glenn Arbery’s “Bearings and Distances”

By |2020-01-09T11:59:18-06:00May 16th, 2019|Categories: Books, Culture, Fiction, Glenn Arbery, Imagination, Literature, South|

Glenn Arbery’s “Bearings and Distances” shuttles back and forth between two eras, weaving, careening, towards an inexorable revelation of truth. The plot is rich and complex, and its world is both fertile and elusive in meaning, expanding through time and culture, expressing a deeply Catholic view of the cosmos. Bearings and Distances, by Glenn Arbery [...]

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