This thread reminds me of Ivan Illich's _In the Vineyard of the Text: A
Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon_. I thought it a fun and even
provocative read when I first encountered it, yet I seem to be the only one
here in west Michigan to have read it. (Surely this cannot be true with
Kalamazoo just 40 miles down the road...) Would anyone care to comment on
this work? Illich isn't a medievalist--more an old-time European
intellectual, I guess. So it's not exactly specialist fare: is this a
problem? Or does this fall under the category of book that we recommend
(perhaps with hesitation) to non-specialists?
Mark F. Williams
Department of Classics Phone: (616) 957-6293
Calvin College FAX: (616) 957-8551
Grand Rapids, MI 49546 Internet: [log in to unmask]
USA
"Ideo nobis non subrepat superbia, quasi pro nostris meritis
aliquid acceperimus, dum filii irae fuimus." -Alcuin
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