The Crass and the Sublime in Dante and Chaucer | Dr. Patrick Callahan

This lecture was given on March 17, 2022 at the University of Maryland, College Park. The handout for this lecture can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/4nh6uavk. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Patrick Callahan is director of the Newman Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as well as Assistant Professor of English & Humanities at St. Gregory the Great Seminary. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Dallas and his graduate work at Fordham University in Classical Philology. While his doctoral work focused on ancient Greek commentaries to the lyric poet Pindar, his recent work focuses on early Jesuit Latin texts.