medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: "Brasington, Bruce" <[log in to unmask]>
>Please remove me from the list. Bruce C. Brasington
well, i'm sincerely sorry to read that, Bruce.
your contributions over the years, while certainly not frequent, have always
been constructive, never intentionally humerous, and, even, helpful
(ocassionally to myself).
as it happens, requesting help to leave the list is not really necessary.
it's a simple task (or at least it appears to be --i've never actually done it
myself)-- just follow the instruction kindly provided by our List Mommies
which appears at the bottom of each and every post sent to the list, viz.:
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as to the post which, apparently, originally Set You Off, i have to confess
some puzzlement:
> From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious
culture on behalf of George R. Hoelzeman
> Because people in the Middle Ages often behaved in similar fashion to people
today, thus, one can see various events of the period in light of peoples use
of religion as a justification for various world views and conflicts.
> George the Less (who sees connections between everything)
seemed to me like a perfectly straightforward, non-flamable and (above all)
relevant observation on George's part.
but you responded:
>I fail to see how these remarks contribute to my understanding of medieval
religion which, I also thought, was the purpose of this network. Bruce C.
Brasington, Dept. of History, West Texas A&M University
leaving aside the obvious (that "this network" has a wonderful multiplicity of
"purposes," limited only by the imagination of its equally wonderfully
resourceful members), the discussion of the relationship between the
"religious" (broadly defined) experiences and practices of modren folk and
those of middlevil folk is (at a minimum) methodologically entirely relevant
--and even essential-- to (one of) the purposes of this list.
as you yourself have said, "I've always thought that the study of history
taught humility, a humility that comes from recognizing the chasm of time and
circumstance between the lives of those we study--or try to--and our own,
often not very well understood either."
me, too.
except maybe for that "humility" part.
"humility" doesn't Begin to Cover It, seems to me.
this whole lame Project of "[Re-?]Constructing History" is quite beyond
"teaching" "humility" --it's an Exercise in The Absurd, Up Front; and the
failure to recognize it as such an Arrogant Omission, Fatal to the hapless
Akademic who is guilty of it.
c
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