Julie’s Reviews > Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World > Status Update

Early 17th Century: The Jesuits make a good impression in Beijing, while in Rome, Galileo pisses off the Pope with his heliocentrism....

My beloved Cathars (stars of my first novel, In Another Life) take center stage as the book enters the 12th century....

I love the descriptions of Skellig Michael, how the monks there felt themselves to be in a liminal space between earth and heaven. I haven't been-I just feel that tours of this fragile place are so destructive- but I've seen it from a distance and can imagine how, in the 6th century, it must have seemed like the edge of the world.

Nero: debauched freak. But crikey. The parallels between the end days of the Roman Empire and the current state of the Western world? Chilling. Post-modern moral relativism is ghastly.

My very first audio book! I've decided I need to cut back on listening to political podcasts and take my precious walking time to learn something :-)