A wonderfully fun book! I read this last winter for a break from the medieval and was well rewarded. I admit that the title initially made me think that it might be a lament for print or an encomium for … Continue reading
n intelligent engagement with the past is a critical component for a working public sphere. The totalitarian state is free to use its vision of history to impose its ideological orthodoxy, or alternatively, lacking any voice to the contrary, to … Continue reading
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