tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post1747726106625507029..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: What We Do: A Medieval Morning Hunting Papal CatsCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-64547577810076131472008-04-24T13:57:00.000-04:002008-04-24T13:57:00.000-04:00Somebody has just proposed Aidan as a national sai...Somebody has just proposed Aidan as a national saint for Britain ...<BR/><BR/>Don't worry the 'we' wasn't in response to what you wrote, but just a generic diffidence about using the collective pronoun.<BR/><BR/>reading some good stuff about cat bones just now by my good colleague TOC which IS more relevant to your post. If you'd like the details - just email me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-53011189346124350472008-04-24T09:31:00.000-04:002008-04-24T09:31:00.000-04:00I love that bit about Morley too. When is it that ...I love that bit about Morley too. When is it that George moves from being a patron saint into a national saint? I'd like to ask the same question about St Denis, and I wonder if historians of the development of 'national consciousness' have tracked saints to answer their questions...<BR/><BR/>I didn't mean to say that what I do is all what 'we' do. My main intent, other than just recording that morning's obsession, was to show what one medievalist does, since we were getting a lot of non-academics, I presume, given the trickle-down traffic spike (760+ hits) from Frank Rich's <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/opinion/20rich.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin" REL="nofollow">column,</A> which linked to an Inside Higher Ed column that itself linked to a piece I wrote here several months ago.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-38856571763158694932008-04-23T06:28:00.000-04:002008-04-23T06:28:00.000-04:00What do "we" do? Celebrate St George of course:htt...What do "we" do? Celebrate St George of course:<BR/><BR/>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7351194.stm<BR/><BR/>and also here:<BR/>http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/<BR/><BR/>Love the bit about little Morley not giving in to big Leeds.<BR/><BR/>Never seen St George be this big before.<BR/><BR/>Sarah RJAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com