medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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: 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]), presumably misled by the title,
under "Medieval Religion". (And this using the Library of Congress
Classification, which was an additional hurdle.)
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.
John Briggs
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