tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post3198659066873275488..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: Stony ArgumentsCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-43593926771721448132009-10-10T10:20:20.943-04:002009-10-10T10:20:20.943-04:00I also wonder if your stoney subject, Jeffrey, dem...I also wonder if your stoney subject, Jeffrey, demands a different approach. After all, it's not a subject on which a review of literature will function very well, since, I'm presuming, previous studies of stonework have been source-studies for lapidaries, narrative cladistics of stone-stories through the ages, and so forth, none of which makes any contact with what you've been doing in your work since the mid-90s. How could you review this literature? What good would that do? Now, for Mandeville, where Mandeville readers and you have been working in some of the same conceptual narratives, other scholarly approaches, generous to your colleagues and fore-bearers, would be required. For stonework, you need a different approach. So I'm disinclined to say that the change is in you (or at least in you only); it's also in the field, which, to a certain degree, you're inventing.<br /><br />As for the book, yes, it looks wonderful, but I wish it hadn't limited itself to English, as this grossly misrepresents the way literature and writing worked in medieval Britain, projecting the conditions of the 15th and 16th centuries (or even of the 19th century, if we recall the literary dominance of Latin) back through the centuries.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-21227939362739317702009-10-05T14:36:31.899-04:002009-10-05T14:36:31.899-04:00The table of contents for this book looks wonderfu...The table of contents for this book looks wonderfully eclectic! I'm really impressed.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15231811362521425094noreply@blogger.com