| DE squat | 295x4x5 |
| DE deadlift | 305x2x5 |
| HKR | 7.5x5x2 |
| HBB GHR | BWx3x3 |
| Burpee | BWx17 in 90sec |
Reading:
- My history coursework has taken up the overwhelming majority of my reading time. I've only gotten a few chapters further into From Russia With Love. I've been to Istanbul and thoroughly enjoyed it, so it's fun to see Fleming's descriptions of the city and its inhabitants. Everything else has been class reading.
- In the middle of Beowulf (Chickering's translation), and it's very captivating. I don't remember being particularly enamored with it as a kid, but as an adult I find the story very compelling, particularly the view of fate that's presented. My favorite line so far is "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage holds." There's so much to unpack right there about the medieval Anglo Saxon worldview.
- Finished "On the Union and Peace of the Churches of Old and New Rome" by John Bekkos (Gilbert's translation). During a 13th century attempt at union between the Churches of Western Europe and and the Byzantine Empire, Bekkos was a Constantinopolitan priest and vocal anti-unionist. He ended up switching sides after becoming convinced that the Latins were not heretics, and wrote this treatise to defend the Latin's use of the phrase "the Holy Ghost, who proceeds from the Father and the Son" in the Nicene Creed, relying primarily on citations from heavy hitter Byzantine theologians like John Chrysostom, Athanasius the Great, and Cyril of Alexandria. He became patriarch of Constantinople, and ended up in jail for his pro-union stance.
It was pretty dry reading. It's historical interest lies in the fact that the theological resolvability of the schism didn't actually matter.
- Finished up the Life of St. Sergius, a very good medieval biography of a Russian saint who ran off into the wilderness, hung out with bears, raised people from the dead, learned to read by miracle, and other such saintly tasks.
