Kevin Gannon: The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 5/20 (cc @lollardfish.bsky.social) #booksky

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 5/20 (cc @lollardfish.bsky.social) #booksky

<3 makes me emotional to see this.

A long echo.

My dad

My bad, should've cc'd you too. Your dad was/is one of my absolute favorite scholars

No worries: I keep as low a profile here as possible. It was nice to stumble on.

Thanks for this. Just read two reviews. Really an interesting movement and some pretty early anarchism of quite a particular flavor

It's such a good book. Perry listens to his sources on their own terms, and never fails into the modern-scholar trap of treating them as impractical or frivolous. It's a model of scholarly nuance and sensitivity (and it's really well-written).

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