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The letters to the NYT in reply are depressing though--some justice, but also the old idea that the Middle Ages was chock-a-block with witch trials. There's something about the Renaissance, including its very name, that suggests witch-burning couldn't have happened in those wonderful days. I'm at a one day conference here at Columbia on the book (a number of the speakers are my former students and then there's the admirable Hanibal Hamlin)and spoke to an authority on the history of the book who told me Sidney was his "hero" but agreed he wouldn't want to die that young. Anne P. > thanks dude > > THOMAS HERRON wrote: >> Hello -- hope springs eternal: C.S. Lewis and Ruskin in the NYT op-ed >> page >> (by David Brooks): >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/opinion/22brooks.html?ref=opinion >> >> Sincerely, Thomas Herron >