medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
You might try looking at the art of the period. Though late, you
probably can learn a lot from all three of the Breughels as well as H.
Bosch. yrs, tom ault
On Sun, 4 Aug 2002 13:02:24 EDT
Timothy Ladd <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
>culture
>
>In a message dated 8/4/02 9:13:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
>> My students
>> > > frequently wonder about the effects of child
>> > rearing
>> > > practices on the (medieval) children in question
>> > and I
>> > > have no decent informed response. Perhaps I just
>> > don't
>> > > know where to look...
>>
>
>I wonder if MG's students ever inquire as to the effects of a lack of
>dental
>technology on the people of this period.
>
>One problem intrinsic to culture studies is the lack of a norm. Would
>those
>same students want to use their own upbringing as the standard? All
>of us
>are cultural creations to some extent. We cannot extricate ourselves
>from
>culture. Foucault's skeptical bose Blick wants to analyze and attack
>analysis
>simultaneously. It wants to set up an Archimedean point from which to
>move
>the whole world and to deny the possibility of the same.
>
>Much more could be learned about the psychology of people in the past
>if we
>had the data. This would be great. But lacking that it seems that
>economic,
>technological, and dietary data play a much larger role in separating
>this
>age from the medieval. The average life span then being very short
>compared
>to ours seems as though it should be of more interest to students
>today than
>what we possibly could determine about the psychology of medievals
>based on
>very loose conceptions of child rearing.
>
>One of the main reasons that Freud will not be very useful in the
>Middle Ages
>is that there was no crisis of identity as we know it. Socioeconomic
>factors
>there again being the major cause of this psychological divide.
>
>
>Timothy Ladd
>Owosso, Michigan
>
>Graeci habeant sibi sapientiae nomen obscurum
>sed agamus igitur pingui ut aiunt Minerva in sermone.
>
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