few quotes to add to an earlier post on the Middle Ages, which, I think, contrast nicely with one another even if each does not specifically address the medieval. Brian Stock, Listening for the Text: On the Uses of the … Continue reading
ow we define the Middle Ages obviously affects the methods and modes of our inquiry, but it also reflects a range of inherited ways of looking at the past. Ancient, medieval, modern, contemporary (by whichever name one chooses). And while … Continue reading
This article from the Washington Monthly raises many questions, surely some concerns, and even perhaps in some quarters optimism. Can we have college for 99 bucks a month? The author, Kevin Carey, followed up with an appearance on NPR’s Talk … Continue reading
Something not new, but worth remembering for later. Anthony Grafton, the man famous for having a book wheel in his office, as well as The Book on Joseph Scaliger and Codex in Crisis, writes about some of the caveats related … Continue reading
So a medievalist walks into a conference filled with M.D.’s, computer science people, developmental and cognitive psychologists, and a bunch of forensic document examiners. That in a nutshell was my trip to the International Graphonomics Society in Dijon almost two … Continue reading