medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: John Briggs <[log in to unmask]>
> On 28/09/2011 14:44, Christopher Crockett wrote:
>> i, myself, have no greater wish than to find, when i grow up, that one (or
more!) of my own books has risen to the prestidigetatious level of being
classified by the googleistical bibliophileiacs in their esteamed "Health&
Fitness" section, so that it (/they) might be made available (hopefully in a
"snippet view") to any Moron on the planet with access to The Innernets.
> Things weren't really any better before the Internet age:
perhaps you're right.
the Morons at Google at least have an excuse.
>I remember finding (thirty years ago) that the University of Southampton
Library had classified the collected essays of historian of medieval
technology, Lynn White (Lynn White, Jr., Medieval Religion and Technology
[University of California Press, 1978]),
that's his "Collected Essays"
his best known book is probably
Medieval technology and social change.
Oxford U.P., 1962.
> Lynn White was educated at a Californian Military Academy, and claimed
to have been the last medieval historian to be trained to take part in a
cavalry charge. Which probably explained his obsession with the stirrup.
then what would explain his obsession with the wheeled plow --to say nothing
of the Crank?
c
p.s. i understand that his theory that the stirrup was the major element in a
causal chain leading to the rise of "feudalism" has been somewhat debunked in
recent decades.
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