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Lions We’ve Lost
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A Writer Passionate About Travel and Gay Rights
* James R. Williams ’08Writer who lived in New Delhi, India, died on April 28, 2021.
A writer with interest in television and film, Williams believed that positive LGBTQIA+ portrayals on American television contributed to increased acceptance. After moving to India in 2018, he worked hard to get such shows produced there, driven by the belief that if Indian television shows featured openly gay lead characters, it might help to accelerate change in cultural attitudes.
Williams’s older brother, John, noted that his brother “really believed in the power of the media to change the way people thought about certain disfavored populations.”
Born on June 30, 1985, in Florence, Ala., Williams grew up in nearby St. Florian until his mother died in a car accident in 1992 and his father died by suicide in 1995. Williams and his brother went to live with their
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German Literature
The Goths, the first Germanic tribe to be converted, embraced Christianity in the form of Arianism. But they soon gave way to the Franks, who became the dominant people, and the conversion of their king, Clovis, to Christianity, in 496, was of decisive importance. The conversion of Germany, vigorously carried on since the eighth century by Irish and Anglo-Saxon missionaries, notably by St. Boniface (d. 755), was completed when Charlemagne (d. 814) forced the heathen Saxons to submit to his rule and to be baptized, and united all the German tribes under his sway. Under him and his successors Christianity was firmly established. The clergy became the representatives of learning; the newly established monasteries and their schools, above all those of Fulda and St. Gall, were the centers of culture. The language of the Church was Latin, but preaching and instruction had to be carried on in the vernacular. The prose literature that arose to serve this purpose is only of linguistic interest. The poetry that developed during this period was wholly Christian in character. Examples are the “Wessobrunner Gebet” and the “Muspilli”, the latter an alliterative poem on the destruction of the world; both date from the ninth century. The Church, natu
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List of German-language poets
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