tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post114563147462903234..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: Was Margery Kempe Jewish?Cord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1146192434258896102006-04-27T22:47:00.000-04:002006-04-27T22:47:00.000-04:00I think 'Eli, Eli' is Hebrew, but 'lama sabachtha...I think 'Eli, Eli' is Hebrew, but 'lama sabachthani' is Aramaic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1145907413357327312006-04-24T15:36:00.000-04:002006-04-24T15:36:00.000-04:00I would say, worry him. I take his caution to hear...I would say, worry him. I take his caution to heart -- one wouldn't want to identify with a medieval heretic say, or with her persecuators ... but I think that's very different from forming an alliance with such a person. Dinshaw is good at articulating this strategy in a way that doesn't throw caution to the wind.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1145712086427253522006-04-22T09:21:00.000-04:002006-04-22T09:21:00.000-04:00I read this argument in Id. Machines and liked it ...I read this argument in Id. Machines and liked it there, too. No time or energy to write something substantial, but I wonder if you've read:<BR/><BR/>Justice, Steven. “Inquisition, Speech, and Writing: A Case from Late-Medieval Norwich.” Representations 48 (1994): 1-29.<BR/><BR/>“There are perhaps those for whom the matters on which Margery Baxter and the rest were examined—the Real Presence, tithes, pilgrimages, images—are live and compelling issues; for the rest of us, there probably can be at most a raw feeling of solidarity with one or another side. While I would not choose to be without the feeling, I cannot pretend that I share Margery Baxter’s beliefs any more than I share Bishop Alnwick’s, or that she would feel anything but patronized by a sympathy that puts aside the beliefs that were for her the point of dissent; and I cannot in any case imagine that my sympathy does her any good. If as historians we cultivate sympathies, we should in all conscience admit that it is ourselves for whom we cultivate them . . . we ought not to pretend that our work is on our subjects’ behalf, or that it is in any direct or unambiguous way political; it is perhaps at most a cultivation of the soul” (26).<BR/><BR/>I offer this argument--surely very much an articulation of/against the early 90s--not <I>against</I> yours, which is cognizant of what Justice cautions, but against the probability of my unanalyzed sympathies for MK. <BR/><BR/>But if we want to worry Justice a bit here, too, I wouldn't stand in anyone's way.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.com