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Thank you, Christopher, that is all very useful. I'll keep trying (though I
doubt I'll send you a CD of the AASS in gratitude. We'll see what I get
first. :)
jw
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>Subject: Re: [M-R] Acta sanctorum on line
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>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion
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>From: "John B. Wickstrom" <[log in to unmask]>
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>> I was very excited at the comment below that the Bib. Nat. had put
>> much of
>the Acta Sanctorum on line. But when I went searching all I
>could find was the first and final pages of the various
>volumes. Am I doing something wrong?
>
>yes.
>
>and no.
>
>you should have noted my characterisation of the site as "an
>extremely useful site (for all its many faults)".
>
>foremost amongst those faults is surely the extremely clunky,
>counter-intuitive and *BUGGY AS HELL* interface.
>
>with respects to our French collegues, the site is most
>charitably said to work "en principe".
>
>i really can't walk you through the process via email, John,
>but can only suggest that you keep trying.
>
>one thing which works is to download ("telecharge", in the
>Acadamie's jargot) some pages --these files are *huge*, so
>just do a few at a time, depending upon the quality of your connection.
>
>if you already have the reference to the page(s) you want, you
>have the option of viewing that page, somewhere in the damned
>interface.
>
>once you get there you should be able to page (slowly)
>through, one page at a time, by using the little ">" element,
>also somewhere on the page.
>
>but when you first ask for the document, you only get the
>first page, for some reason.
>
>Keep on Truckin.
>
>there's Light at the End of the Tunnel, believe me.
>
>just like Eyerack.
>
>the amount of good you can get from the site varies directly
>with your patience in navigating the damned thing.
>
>a member of this list very kindly downloaded *all* of the
>available volumes of DuCange (they are not all up, yet) and
>burned them on to CD-ROMs, very kindly sending me a copy for
>some minimal help i gave him in navigating the site (mostly,
>in the form of hand-holding "Keep on Truckin" and "there's
>Light at the End of the Tunnel, believe me").
>
>so, i've got most of DuCange on a coupla CDs.
>
>not searchable, of course, but all there, more or less in a
>legible form.
>
>downloading all of the AASS is not recommended for Mature
>Audiences, however.
>
>best,
>
>c
>
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