medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: John Wickstrom <[log in to unmask]>
> Christopher, good advice, I got that Bib. nat. site working properly: (it
was my Norwegian browser, not the French bureaucracy that was at fault.)
yes, the Norwegians don't get along too well with the French.
> The site is quirky as you say, but very flexible once one gets used to its
odd interface...
if i don't use it for a week or two i find that i've fallen back down to the
bottom of the Learning Curve and have to claw my way back up, only slightly
faster than the very first time i had to do that.
most all of the Ministre de Kulture sites i've seen have these really funky,
sometimes buggy, interfaces.
but they all work "en principe" and that's all that counts, i suppose.
the most maddening thing about them is their habit of being niggardly on the
size of some of their graphics files --ms pages and maps especially are always
*way* too small to actually read; apparently they just think of maps as works
of art, not meant to be read.
second most maddening thing is found on the various "bases de données",
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/bdd/index.html
especially the one called "Memoire"
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/pres.htm
which is a "Fonds graphiques et photographiques conservés par la Direction de
l'architecture et du patrimoine --378.000 notices et images".
an amazing resource, if you're interested in middlevil architecture.
and just chock *full* of improperly captioned pictures --there must be
*thousands* of errors there, from what comparatively little i've seen.
what we have, essentially, is a Plan conceived by Geniuses, executed by
Morons.
>and the prospect of using the Acta Sanctorum on line (and God knows what else
from the good Gauls at BNF) is downright exciting.
yes, i've about gotten to the point where i'm disappointed when i go to
the
http://gallica.bnf.fr
site and do *not* find what i'm looking for.
i've reached the place where i just take it for granted that they'd have
*that*.
("that" being, say, a complete run of the 19th century volumes of the Memoires
of the Societe Archeologique d'Eure-et-Loir.)
however, i'm sure that sometime in the next decade or so, they will have their
merde entirely ensemble and the site will be spectacular.
btw, the CD version of the AASS is very decent --and downloadable/searchable--
if you can afford the stiff price (get WMU or the M.I. to buy it for you).
> Thanks for encouraging persistence.
glad to be of some use, for a change.
sometimes, no matter what i do, everything turns out O.K.
c
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