Carolyn Muessig wrote:
>To preach and to be a hermit were not mutually exclusive. For
further information see George Ferzoco, "Preaching by Italian Hermits,"
in C. Muessig, ed., *Medieval Monastic Preaching*, Brill's Studies in
Intellectual History 90 (Brill, 1998), pp. 145-159.
>(Please excuse the self-promotion!)
Mmmmm.
I suppose.
St. Francis preached to the birds....
Well, the self-promotion I can excuse; it's the scholarly nepotism I just
cannot abide (especially as I can't decide who is figurative nephew, who
uncle).
Anyway, thanks for the ref, nepotism or no.
Show how far out of the loop I am, I didn't even know that Bernard was Italian
(don't tell George).
Quite a while ago I believe I read a longish article on him (Bernard, not
George) in the Revue Mabillon ('50's?), but evidently repressed the bit about
preaching.
Returned from California to find that I've only got about three weeks' work to
do before the 'zoo, where, btw, I can take a look at all the new,
bargin-priced Brill editions, including those obscure nepotistical tomes they
specialize in foisting off on the innocent public ("We have to price 'em at
$125," Julian tells me, "We just don't sell enough of them." duh).
In any event, should anyone on this list actually have an existence other than
virtual and find him/her's real self manifesting at Kalamazoo,
please drop by my stall and say hello.
(This is not *really* shameless self-promotion, as my commercial
presence there is just a front: I haven't had any new stock for donkeys'
years. This may be the year I don't have to rent a van and can just come up on
a skateboard with a wheelbarrow.)
All are welcome except for that Hotfritz guy, who, it appears, will do
*anything*--even banish himself to [horrors!!] old Heidelberg--to keep from
standing me to the few miserable drinks he promised me at his
brother Max's bar in downtown Kalamazoo.
(N.b., the local Zooites' claim that Max waters his whiskey during the first
week in May is probably greatly exagerated; and I hold that this
can only be fairly proven by the ultimate _reductio ad adsurdum_ method
of drinking it all, just to be sure).
Best to all from here,
Christopher
Christopher Crockett
Would-be future curator of the
Centre des Etudes Chartraines
a home on the Web for Chartres-
related scholarship from all disciplines,
comming sometime in the next millenium
to a web site near you.
And Pres. & CEO of
Christopher's Book Room
P.O. Box 1061
Bloomington, IN 47402
(Corporate motto: "Will sell Books for Food")
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