5.6 The Roots of American Order | The Light of the Middle Ages with Dr. Justin Stover
Release Date: 01/05/2022
6.17 Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America | Final Thoughts
Vital Remnants
Vital Remnants, a production of the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, walks you through great texts in human history. This season, join your host - the Center’s Director, Dr. Gary L. Gregg - as he leads an exploration of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. For this episode, Gary reflects back on all of the ground covered this season and offers his closing reflections. "Tocqueville's America - and Ours" is the McConnell Center's 2023-2024 programming, focused on studying Alexis de Tocqueville's 19th century work, "Democracy in America." Long considered a...
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6.16 Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America | A Fortnight in the Wilderness
Vital Remnants
Vital Remnants, a production of the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, walks you through great texts in human history. This season, join your host - the Center’s Director, Dr. Gary L. Gregg - as he leads an exploration of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. For this episode, Gary's co-host, Dr. John Wilsey is joined by author Amy H. Sturgis, faculty member at Signum University with a Ph.D. in Intellectual History who specializes in Gothic and Indigenous America Studies. Together they explore Tocqueville's stand-alone work, A Fortnight in the Wilderness. ...
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6.15 Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America | Equality and Free Institutions
Vital Remnants
Vital Remnants, a production of the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, walks you through great texts in human history. This season, join your host - the Center’s Director, Dr. Gary L. Gregg - as he leads an exploration of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. For this episode, Gary's co-host, Dr. John Wilsey is joined by Dr. Sara Henary from Missouri State University to explore the final sections of Tocqueville’s work. "Tocqueville's America - and Ours" is the McConnell Center's 2023-2024 programming, focused on studying Alexis de Tocqueville's 19th...
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6.14 Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America | Honor, Patriotism & Pugnacity
Vital Remnants
Vital Remnants, a production of the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, walks you through great texts in human history. This season, join your host - the Center’s Director, Dr. Gary L. Gregg - as he leads an exploration of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. For this episode, Gary's co-host, Dr. John Wilsey, explores the themes of honor, patriotism & pugnacity within Tocqueville’s work while examining the ways in which America has changed since the 19th Century and the many ways in which things have stayed consistent. "Tocqueville's America - and...
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6.13 Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America | Family and the Role of Women
Vital Remnants
Vital Remnants, a production of the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, walks you through great texts in human history. This season, join your host - the Center’s Director, Dr. Gary L. Gregg - as he leads an exploration of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. For this episode, Gary's co-host, Dr. John Wilsey, welcomes McConnell Scholar Kathleen Price to join him for a discussion exploring how Tocqueville observed the roles of women inside and apart from the function of family in 19th century America. "Tocqueville's America - and Ours" is the McConnell...
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6.12 Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America | Sanity, Religion & Politics
Vital Remnants
Vital Remnants, a production of the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, walks you through great texts in human history. This season, join your host - the Center’s Director, Dr. Gary L. Gregg - as he leads an exploration of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. For this episode, Gary'explores Tocqueville's feelings towards the ideas of sanity and mental health, along with the intersection of religion and politics in America. "Tocqueville's America - and Ours" is the McConnell Center's 2023-2024 programming, focused on studying Alexis de Tocqueville's 19th...
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6.11 Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America | Spiritualism and Work
Vital Remnants
Vital Remnants, a production of the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, walks you through great texts in human history. This season, join your host - the Center’s Director, Dr. Gary L. Gregg - as he leads an exploration of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. For this episode, Gary's co-host, Dr. John Wilsey, welcomes , the Executive Director of the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy, to join him for a discussion exploring how Tocqueville felt towards the ideas of spiritualism and work in America. "Tocqueville's America - and Ours" is the...
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6.10 Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America | Associations and Self Interest
Vital Remnants
Vital Remnants, a production of the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, walks you through great texts in human history. This season, join your host - the Center’s Director, Dr. Gary L. Gregg - as he leads an exploration of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. For this episode, Gary's co-host, Dr. John Wilsey, welcomes McConnell Scholar Riley Maddox to join him for a discussion exploring how Tocqueville felt towards the ideas of association and self-interest in America. "Tocqueville's America - and Ours" is the McConnell Center's 2023-2024 programming,...
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6.9 Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America | Is There an American Mind?
Vital Remnants
Vital Remnants, a production of the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, walks you through great texts in human history. This season, join your host - the Center’s Director, Dr. Gary L. Gregg - as he leads an exploration of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. For this episode, Gary's co-host, Dr. John Wilsey, explores the theme of what Tocqueville believed defined a mindset as specifically "American." "Tocqueville's America - and Ours" is the McConnell Center's 2023-2024 programming, focused on studying Alexis de Tocqueville's 19th century work,...
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6.8 Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America | Prescient Mind
Vital Remnants
Vital Remnants, a production of the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, walks you through great texts in human history. This season, join your host - the Center’s Director, Dr. Gary L. Gregg - as he leads an exploration of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. For this episode, Gary explores the theme of "prescient mind." "Tocqueville's America - and Ours" is the McConnell Center's 2023-2024 programming, focused on studying Alexis de Tocqueville's 19th century work, "Democracy in America." Long considered a classic consideration of the origins, evolution,...
info_outlineVital Remnants Producer Connor Tracy is joined by Dr. Justin Stover, Senior Lecturer of Medieval Latin at the University of Edinburgh, to explore what Russell Kirk calls our “neglected inheritance” from the Middle Ages. In addition to the influence of the Medieval world on America, the two discuss the culture of the Middle Ages and address some of the common misconceptions about the period.
Corresponding Reading
Chapter 6, pp. 177-219 of Russell Kirk, The Roots of American Order
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Further Reading from the Middle Ages:
- Dante, The Divine Comedy
- Bernardus Silvestris, Cosmographia
- Hugh of Saint Victor, Didascalicon: A Medieval Guide to The Arts
- Alan of Lille, De Planctu Naturae (Lament of Nature)
- Alan of Lille, Anticlaudianus
- Sermons of Bernard of Clairvaux
- The Song of Roland
- The Song Of El Cid
- Beowulf
Further Reading about the Middle Ages
- C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image
- Jean Leclercq, The Love of Learning and The Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture
- Henri de Lubac, Medieval Exegesis: The Four Senses of Scripture
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Contributors
Host, Producer, and Editor: Connor Tracy, McConnell Center SBS Coordinator