and at BU he spoke on the role of women in privatizing literacy in the
middle ages, with some wonderful illustrations in which Mary at the
annunciation, shifts in the course of high medieval iconography, from
spinning (like eve) to reading.
r
At 08:48 PM 11/18/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Dear Darryl Ogier,
>
>The person to talk to is Michael Clanchy (can be reached via the Institute
for
>Historical Research, Senate House, London) who can put you in touch with
others
>working on similar documentation (re-medieval literacy). I heard him speak
>about tallies on slates (from medieval Scandinavia?) at the St. Andrews
13thc.
>conference.
>
>Gary Dickson
>University of Edinburgh
>
>
>
Richard Landes
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"Every generation gets the millennium it deserves." -- Richard Landes
remembering Umberto Eco's address (8-98)
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