End of week links, for your Friday evening, because you really don't have anything else to do.  You're welcome!

This is one post in a series of interesting posts on Augustine’s “afterlife” in the middle ages.  This one is on a person whom the author designates as Augustine’s first “editor,” though in some ways he was one of Augustine’s first PR-men (with, say, Prosper of Aquitaine too).  The whole series is interesting. 

A brief introduction to three women who were Enlightenment philosophers--Anne Conway, Emilie du Châtelet, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Lovely depiction of the ancient Middle Eastern city of Jerash, originally populated by veterans of Alexander's campaigns, and brought to its apogee by the Romans.

This is, to my mind, helpful advice about what to do if you receive tenure in an academic institution.  (A lot to say, but learning to think in decades rather than semesters, for a part of your brain, is what I found to be hardest to learn.)

The history of “The Black National Anthem,” “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is truly an amazing and inspirational hymn.  Also a bit of info about James Weldon Johnson too, which is cool. 

A nice piece on Jan Morris, a great writer, whose books on Oxford, Trieste, and Admiral Jacky Fisher, among others, are still very much worth your while.  She’s lived a remarkable life.