Subject: | | Re: St Serendipity and patron saints |
From: | | kwildgen <[log in to unmask]> |
Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 09 Mar 2000 20:18:17 -0500 (EST)594_us-ascii Someone mentioned that these figures have odd tonsures. Since the precise nature of the celtic tonsure seems still to be very much an issue in some circles, are any of the photos good enough to tell us what the tonsures look like? meg
> I can't think of any other flashing clerics, but there are a few male > Sheelas, or rather Sean-na-gigs: at Ballycloghduff in West Meath on > the gatepost of an old mill, at Grey Abbey in Co Down, and at Margam > in Wales. To my knowledge, the literature has largely ignored these > male figures. [...]44_09Mar200020:18:17-0500(EST)[log in to unmask] |
Date: | | Wed, 01 Mar 2000 10:08:16 -0800 |
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So glad to know all of western civ is going to hell in a handbasket, not
just that found in the US. You're not alone.
K
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> Sorry - we tend to assume that we will all have RAE written on our hearts
> when we die. It is the research assessment exercise, thought up by one of
> our least-lamented secretaries of state for education to fund universities
> according to research output. It was apparently designed to ensure that
> undergraduates were taught by research-active staff; inevitably (as we all
> said at the time) it has achieved precisely the opposite, as prolific
> writers are far too valuable to be wasted on History 101. It has also
> created a vicious circle in which small but aspiring institutions (such as
> mine) cannot afford the staff time or library resources to mount major
> research programmes, so we don't get the funding, so we can't afford ...
> while our colleagues in other institutions romp away writing 5 books a year
> and improving their cvs. And while it has produced some good work, I think
> we'd all agree it has also placed a premium on verbosity and theorising -
> resulting in the inflation of publishers' lists - putting further strain on
> our library budgets - (must sign off now - script to be finished and
> delivered to publisher by Easter in time for the current assessment round -
> )
>
> Maddy
>
> Dr Madeleine Gray
> Department of Humanities and Science
> UWCN
>
> 'Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought'
> (and so I sometimes think is writing)
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