I feel like 93% of the Edward II mentions I read forget that his main problem wasn't that he had male lovers, but that he was stupid about it (and also about everything else). Also, Isabella of France had a name.
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I feel like 93% of the Edward II mentions I read forget that his main problem wasn't that he had male lovers, but that he was stupid about it (and also about everything else). Also, Isabella of France had a name.
A) I'm begging for a translation from Middle English quotes. I realize this is a textbook, but you can't assume everyone is a full-fledged medievalist already. I read Latin easier than thisse boulleshet.
B) 85F (30°c) in the shade doesn't help.
I actually still like the book a lot. just fucking. translate the Middle English.
pickIt's fascinating to read about the amount and variety of medieval graffiti in churches, and the fact that it seems clear some of it at least was sanctioned and even had a devotional purpose. The author concludes little, which is unsatisfying, but he isn't wrong that in many of these cases we simply cannot know.
This is interesting so far, but mostly... we don't really know how to explain a lot of the graffiti, so there are few conclusions we can come to. Every chapter ends with a kind of “but really, we don't know“, which is fair, I just wish we did know!
#threelistThursday #tlt @dabbe
I‘ve read so much American literature because that‘s what I taught. So many titles here that I should have read!!
Sequel to The Pillars of the Earth at 1,261 pages according to The Story Graph. Thought the winner would be The Stand, but that‘s 1,232 pages.
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#Bibliophile
I was obsessed with this book growing up & checked it out often from the library. The 1950 #NewberyWinner it‘s about Robin, young son of a nobleman, whose dream of knighthood is crushed when he loses the use of his legs through illness & must find another path. (I guess I could have used it for yesterday‘s prompt as well.🤷🏻♀️)
BTW: I first learned the phrase “by hook or by crook” in this book & it‘s always stayed with me. 😉
Random book from our home library:
📖 Six Middle English Romances edited by Maldwyn Mills
pickWhich will win, my distaste for history of science or my love for medieval shit? Medieval shit, it turns out. A concise little summary of how it's wrong to label the medieval era as stagnant, with lots of interesting bits about engineering, astronomy, clockwork, but more importantly their impact on society. That said, Gimpel is VERY based in the mid-1970s and draw some far fetched (we've seen) conclusions about the fate of the western world.
Random book from our home library:
📖 Life in the Castle in Medieval England by John Burke
