medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: "John B. Wickstrom" <[log in to unmask]>
> I was very excited at the comment below that the Bib. Nat. had put much of
the Acta Sanctorum on line. But when I went searching all I could find was the
first and final pages of the various volumes. Am I doing something wrong?
yes.
and no.
you should have noted my characterisation of the site as "an extremely useful
site (for all its many faults)".
foremost amongst those faults is surely the extremely clunky,
counter-intuitive and *BUGGY AS HELL* interface.
with respects to our French collegues, the site is most charitably said to
work "en principe".
i really can't walk you through the process via email, John, but can only
suggest that you keep trying.
one thing which works is to download ("telecharge", in the Acadamie's jargot)
some pages --these files are *huge*, so just do a few at a time, depending
upon the quality of your connection.
if you already have the reference to the page(s) you want, you have the option
of viewing that page, somewhere in the damned interface.
once you get there you should be able to page (slowly) through, one page at a
time, by using the little ">" element, also somewhere on the page.
but when you first ask for the document, you only get the first page, for some
reason.
Keep on Truckin.
there's Light at the End of the Tunnel, believe me.
just like Eyerack.
the amount of good you can get from the site varies directly with your
patience in navigating the damned thing.
a member of this list very kindly downloaded *all* of the available volumes of
DuCange (they are not all up, yet) and burned them on to CD-ROMs, very kindly
sending me a copy for some minimal help i gave him in navigating the site
(mostly, in the form of hand-holding "Keep on Truckin" and "there's Light at
the End of the Tunnel, believe me").
so, i've got most of DuCange on a coupla CDs.
not searchable, of course, but all there, more or less in a legible form.
downloading all of the AASS is not recommended for Mature Audiences, however.
best,
c
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