tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587537.post8110347948605494873..comments2023-10-01T14:55:23.739+01:00Comments on Debilitas Mentis: Will our brave blogger commit to a series of posts?Alison Purnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06870107202140630650noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587537.post-46853015026206247862009-11-22T01:34:42.503+00:002009-11-22T01:34:42.503+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587537.post-79209800071233921592008-11-10T10:15:00.000+00:002008-11-10T10:15:00.000+00:00As a follower who lives in Australia and therefore...As a follower who lives in Australia and therefore doesn't know you irl: hi! I dropped by one day via some other mediaevalist's blog list and said "oo, history of mental impairment, hooray!" It was a very easy decision, intermittent updates notwithstanding. :)<BR/><BR/>Good luck with your applications! I've been doing a little of that myself lately, so wishing you luck comes both of sympathy and potential for good karma.<BR/><BR/>And I quite agree about the necessity of knowing Latin, or any language, really, particularly when the source is of a genre that is rather particular to that language. I decided this when I was about 15 and busily falling in love with Italian opera becasue it was more interesting than school - some things just didn't work if you translated them, partly because you have to maul the original rhythm to approximate the sense, but mostly because the Italian opera vocabulary is <I>made</I> for opera, in a way that English just can't get. <BR/><BR/>Similarly, so much scholarly, theological, intellectual and medical material was only ever written in Latin throughout the middle ages that, even where there is a vernacular equivalent, it has a very different <I>feel</I> to it, and is often misleading anyway.<BR/><BR/>Apologies for typos - I mauled my hand at work today, and am too lazy to correct mistakes when typing only with the other!Hannah Kilpatrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06750010843246514032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587537.post-31203301638452939622008-11-09T09:39:00.000+00:002008-11-09T09:39:00.000+00:00Our brave blogger hath returned! Where's St Brenda...Our brave blogger hath returned! Where's St Brendan, though?* I thought he went with you wherever you ended up going?....<BR/><BR/>As for Derrida, I'd throw Foucault in there.<BR/><BR/>*I suspect only Ali and two other people will get this laaaaaaaaaaaame quasi-Canadian medieval-ish reference, but we shall see!Greg Carrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18016791442312149994noreply@blogger.com