Austria-Hungary and the Anglosphere
E-quaintance Xavier Basora of Buscaraons has sent me a most interesting interview with historian Robert J.W. Evans, a professor of history at Oxford: The legacy of the Habsburg Empire through a historian's eyes. Professor Evans started his academic career as a linguist, and focuses on the role of language and nationalism in the history of Central Europe.
Also from Xavier have come links to posts from a blog that should be of interest to Anglophones the world over who take an interest in their mother tongue: Albion's Seedlings. Especially interesting are the posts under the title of "Anglosphere Historical Narrative."
I'm bit of an Anglophile, but as a Catholic, I cannot but help to be wary of the idea of Anglospherism, both historically and politically. The Brazilian traditionalist philosopher Olavo de Carvalho wrote a brilliant critique of the concept of the Anglosphere addressed to his British and American friends. I'm afraid the essay is no longer available on line, or I am unable to find it. His basic argument was that as Catholicism was essentially analogous with traditional Western thought, mainstream post-Reformation Anglo-Saxon thought, was a deviation from, not the culmination of, that tradition.
E-quaintance Xavier Basora of Buscaraons has sent me a most interesting interview with historian Robert J.W. Evans, a professor of history at Oxford: The legacy of the Habsburg Empire through a historian's eyes. Professor Evans started his academic career as a linguist, and focuses on the role of language and nationalism in the history of Central Europe.
Also from Xavier have come links to posts from a blog that should be of interest to Anglophones the world over who take an interest in their mother tongue: Albion's Seedlings. Especially interesting are the posts under the title of "Anglosphere Historical Narrative."
I'm bit of an Anglophile, but as a Catholic, I cannot but help to be wary of the idea of Anglospherism, both historically and politically. The Brazilian traditionalist philosopher Olavo de Carvalho wrote a brilliant critique of the concept of the Anglosphere addressed to his British and American friends. I'm afraid the essay is no longer available on line, or I am unable to find it. His basic argument was that as Catholicism was essentially analogous with traditional Western thought, mainstream post-Reformation Anglo-Saxon thought, was a deviation from, not the culmination of, that tradition.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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