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From: John Briggs <[log in to unmask]>
> On 21/06/2011 16:34, Christopher Crockett wrote:
>> given the shredding which Berman's book on Cistercian origins received from
Chrysogonus Waddell a few years ago, she needs to be used with some degree of
caution.
> You have said this before,
and, i'll say it again.
>but I have been unable to get hold of a copy of the "shredding" and some
considerable doubt remains on this point.
not among those who have read Chrysogonus' work.
a very gentle, and very gentile shredding, but a shredding none the less.
it takes the form of a long (87pp.) book review:
"The myth of cistercian origins: C.H. Berman and the manuscript sources,"
Cīteaux: commentarii cistercienses, LI, 2000, pp. 299-386.
to my knowledge, it is not available on-line.
a summary abstract is here:
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=13399177
a somewhat more sympathetic reivew of Berman's thesis by John Sommerfeldt,
which takes a broader historiographic viewpoint is here
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb050/is_4_70/ai_n28885965/
he says, "Waddell concludes, 'the book, in its major theses and in many of its
details, is simply wrong'" (p. 360).
i don't know if Berman ever responded to Chrysogonus' review.
c
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