Author Archive: James Motter

Having established a working hypothesis on the number of books that C.S. Lewis read during his lifetime—approximately 20,000—I now move on to the second of […]

In my most recent post, I launched Part 1 of an analysis to answer the question: How many books did C.S. Lewis read in his […]

In the last post, I put forth the proposition that my analysis of C.S. Lewis’ “erudition” has five key parameters: The topic for this post […]

What is the meaning of those four red hashmarks on the Library of Congress graphic? What do they represent? That question I will answer now. […]

Yesterday, I posted a graphic with no explanation of its meaning or relevance to this evaluation of erudition. My hope was to trigger curiosity. I […]

We have begun to develop a list of additional candidates for “most erudite” including: Please note: I will not assess the qualifications or quantify the […]

What books did Lewis have available to him?

With this post we move into the exploration of the twelve “subjective” factors proposed in the last post. This initial factor is actually a two-part […]

In his series looking at the erudition of C.S. Lewis, JA Motter asks whether it’s possible to quantify erudition.

In response to his suggestion that C.S. Lewis might have been one of the most erudite men in history, JA Motter asks whether erudition can even be measured.