Professor William M. Reddy is William T. Thanks to Thomas Dixon for organizing this forum, and to the reviewers for their many thoughtful and penetrating comments. I will try to respond briefly to two sets of critical reflections: 1 cases in which a reviewer disputed or rejected an assertion of mine, but without addressing the considerable evidence supplied in the book to support that assertion; 2 cases in which a reviewer rightly objected that a certain issue was not addressed, or not adequately dealt with in the book.
Ten years in the writing, unwieldy in its ambition, my book, I knew from the beginning, would be, like Swiss cheese, full of holes, and not necessarily easy to follow. I thank all involved for their patience in reading it. The Gregorian reform. Here, please note, I am simply alluding to evidence discussed in the first three chapters.
William IX of Aquitaine. In repayment, his father promised to generously endow a new monastery in Poitiers. Vaishnavism and related forms of devotionalism of South Asia.
For example, Daud Ali, in his valuable study of medieval South Asian court life, as quoted on p. This is not really so different from some contemporary Western experiences, even though the elaborate and mannered interactions many Westerners engage in are governed by the love-lust dichotomy and enact a belief in desire-as-appetite.
The question of the body. I can only offer as an excuse or explanation two considerations. First, this was a conscious decision.
