“…Included is a case study on the legend of St Cecilia in Chaucer and elsewhere, and as patron of music; and, a discussion of canonistic opinion on the licit limits of medicinal magic (in connection with the ministrations of John the Carpenter in "The Miller's Tale")…”

“…While this was perhaps a statement of fact in Russia and elsewhere in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, it is implicit, and ever more so, in the West today. …”