Yesterday I travelled across London to hear a lecture by Jean Claude Schmitt
of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales ,who I understand
has been at the Warburg Institute. Sadly when I got there I was informed
that I was two hours late. The lecture had been re-scheduled from19:00 to
17:00. As I cursed my luck it then transpired that while all this
re-scheduling was going on they had omitted to inform Dr. Schmitt that he
was giving a lecture. He knew nothing of it and was in fact preparing to
return to France. So he never showed up at all. These things happen.
However it rather begs the question of who thought up the title for the talk
'Two Queens of France and their psalters c.1200 A.D: Ingeborg of Denmark and
Blanche of Castille'. It doesn't really trip off the tongue. Would anyone
out there care to speculate on what I might have heard had this comedy of
errors not taken place? I am now more intrigued than perhaps I would have
been had the lecture actually taken place.
regards
john a w lock
Jean-Claude Schmitt (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/Warburg)
Two Queens of France and their pslaters c.1200: Ingeborg of Denmark and
Blanche of Castille
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