Written in History by Simon Sebag Montefiore
This episode of ReadingforWisdom features a review of Written in History: Letters that Changed the World (2018) by Simon Sebag Montefiore. The book is a compilation of letters from notable and/or interesting figures from ancient times to the modern day grouped under a range of categories including Love, Creation, Courage, Dignity, Blood, Friendship, Liberation, Fate, Power, Goodbye and more. A clever and illuminating collection nicely collated, edited and annotated by Montefiore. Please note! Though my review happens to focus on some of the Russian subjects that Montefiore is noted for, the book covers figures from across Europe, the Near East, the Americas and Africa.
Good YouTube videos featuring Montefiore are: Andrew Roberts and himself discussing Churchill and Stalin at Cliveden Literary Festival • The Big Two: Churchill and Stalin ; Montefiore discussing the Romanovs at the Centre on Global Interests • CGI | The Romanovs 1613 - 1918: A Tal... ; and discussing his ‘biography’ of Jerusalem on Book TV • Book TV in London: Simon Sebag Montef... .
ReadingforWisdom is a YouTube channel aimed at exploring some of the ideas around the idea of books as a timeless technology, essential for our intellectual evolution as a species. Considering ‘books’ can and will take us in all sorts of intellectual journeys but the channel does have a natural bias towards discussions about books, their ideas and authors who focus on history, warfare, politics, culture, science and the human condition (ok, most things that matter then). The videos will explore the history of religion but, unlike much content on the web referring to ‘wisdom’, it is a thoroughly secular enterprise, the editor a lifelong religious sceptic.
The channel is a companion to https://readingforwisdom.com, a site curated by Dr Emmet McElhatton to modestly add to what Robert Maynard Hutchings, Chicago academic, Editor-in-Chief of the Great Books of the Western World series and, with colleague Mortimer Adler, founder of the Great Books movement, described as the ‘great conversation’ of history; the dialogue created through the exchange of ideas through the medium of published writings. While the material on https://readingforwisdom.com is grounded in rigorous study, the product of lifelong reading, we hope to provide, and recommend, material that is accessible, stimulating and free from unnecessary academic stylings.
This series of videos are filmed and edited by Caleb McClure. Music is supplied by https://www.bensound.com/
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