love

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• SOURCE: Hollywood Progressive
  12/20/2022
  

  A Historian's Reflections on Love and the Eternal

  by Walter G. Moss

  Keeping the past, including past writings and thinking alive, is one of the great services that historians perform – including preserving the practices and professions of love. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  2/14/2022
  

  The Enlightenment Precursor of the Social Media "Wife Guy"

  by Meghan Roberts

  The "wife guy" who self-servingly projects an image of domestic bliss and romantic devotion is not just a creation of the social media age. 

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• 2/13/2022
  

  Anyone for Existential Torment this Valentine's Day?

  by Barbara H. Rosenwein

  From ancient Greece to the Romantic period, philosophers and artists have endorsed an idea of love that was closer to torture than to the anodyne sentiments of contemporary Valentines. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/13/19
  

  The ‘real’ St. Valentine was no patron of love

  by Lisa Bitel

  Many scholars have deconstructed Valentine and his day in books, articles and blog postings. Some suggest that the modern holiday is a Christian cover-up of the more ancient Roman celebration of Lupercalia in mid-February.