Dear Dr. Ferzoco,
I thought I'd go ahead and offer, if nobody else has, to try and speak to a
student perspective on using medieval-religion. You're going to get an
intro post from me in a few days -- I just changed accounts and started a
religion M.A. program here at the University of Chicago -- but I've been
lurking on the list for about a year now, and it's been extremely helpful as
well as inspiring to me. Without ever having the nerve and/or the
wherewithal to post (I was between institutions and felt woefully out of the
loop), I was able to benefit from a whole host of discussions: everything
from which edition of the Vulgate to purchase to which critiques of
_Montaillou_ to read. I've got a big fat folder of messages saved from
medieval-religion containing valuable bibliographic information, and your
discussions have turned me on to a number of excellent Web resources. (I
should add that I can't imagine pursuing scholarship without the Internet,
if not the Web -- thereby dating myself terribly, I know.) I also listened
in on two regular posters who are visiting scholars here this year, heard
about some dictionary entries which I'm currently writing, and developed a
healthy respect for the varying expertises of everyone on this list.
If you'd like, and if no more regular posters want to cover those topics, I
would be glad to speak up; I'm planning to travel out to K'zoo in any case
and hope I can greet you there. If you already have someone to speak or if
I'm too late, though, you can simply consider my comments a compliment to a
well-administered and extremely rewarding list.
Sinc
erely yours,
Wend
y Love Anderson
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