As a French poet once said, Mary is the sea that no one exhausts.

"Sally Cunneen By Miri Rubin Yale Univ. Press. 560p $35 9780300105001 As a 13th-century French poet once said, Mary is “the sea that no one exhausts.” Yet the remarkable cultural history that the medieval historian Miri Rubin has assembled from worldwide resources seems to challenge that

Respect human dignity rdquo is a common imperative in ethics yet this imperative is filled with ambiguity On the one hand we say that strong paternalism violates the dignity of the patient On the other hand we say that nothing we do can ever deprive another person of their dignity Can we have

Irish fathers are a disturbingly flawed group.

Eamon Duffy on Mary Stuart, reviewed

We often use the word wise to mean ldquo insightful rdquo or ldquo graceful rdquo or ldquo shrewd rdquo or even ldquo humble rdquo Philip Levine rsquo s newest just-published poetry collection his 20th not even counting chapbooks is wise in a more fundamental truer way it is knowing