a Civil War prison camp notorious then and now for its harsh conditions
'everyday person' narratives to ground the concepts
the characters in Letfords poems deliver one thing in spades: heart
Connecting the dots between political violence and ""law and order"" politics
the governing perspective of the final chapter is modern
Unfinished Christians Laura Burns a Civil War prison campWhat can we know about the everyday experiences of Christians during the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries? How did non elite men and women, enslaved, freed, and free persons, who did not renounce sex or choose voluntary poverty become Christian? They neither led a religious community nor did they live in entirely Christian settings. In this period, an age marked by "extraordinary" Christians wonderworking saints, household ascetics, hermits, monks,