A occasional series of portraits of notable bloggers.
From Bizarre and vulgar illustrations from illuminated medieval manuscripts.
Phrase of the day (not, I should hasten to add, one that has any relation to the noble lagomorph) arrant gasconading from Houseman. From which comes "insult of the day" (or perhaps "motto of the day"):
...his mind had keenness without force, and was not a trenchant instrument. His corrections, deft as they are, touch only the surface of the text; his precise and lucid explanations are seldom explanations of difficulties, but only dispel perverse misunderstandings of things which hardly any one but Scaliger can ever have misunderstood. When a real obscurity had baffled Scaliger, it baffled Huet...
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Occasionally one comes across odd stories in the late medieval literature on natural history, and one is inclined to dismiss them as fablous stories born of credulous superstition.
As it happens, the previous post was mostly a digression from what I really wanted to discuss.
If my history teachers had peppered their classes with things like that I might have enjoyed the lessons :)
Hey, give back Eli's mole whacker!:)
Love it. :)
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