Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History

Michael Ledger-Lomas is a historian of religion and the author of Queen Victoria: This Thorny Crown (Oxford, 2021). He writes regularly for the London Review of Books and other publications.

Michael Ledger-Lomas

Tracing the Hard Edges of Religion: On Peter Brown’s “Journeys of the Mind”

"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal

Religion

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Michael Ledger-Lomas is a historian of religion and the author of Queen Victoria: This Thorny Crown (Oxford, 2021). He writes regularly for the London Review of Books and other publications.