tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post7892865623672246982..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: SublunaryCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-45685613225553884652011-09-21T15:22:34.048-04:002011-09-21T15:22:34.048-04:00Jonathan, thanks for the reference (which is new t...Jonathan, thanks for the reference (which is new to me) and Paolo and Jeb: thanks for the comments!Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-73285564691366585272011-09-21T14:03:59.390-04:002011-09-21T14:03:59.390-04:00I didn't know the Gervase of Tilbury reference...I didn't know the Gervase of Tilbury reference, which is very interesting. I mean, the whole paper is full of interesting things I didn't know but that one catches at me especially because of its comparability to the mention by Bishop Agobard of Lyons in the ninth century that peasants he deals with think men come from a place called Magonia in ships in the sky and steal the peasants' crops. The ones they catch don't suffocate, but it reads as if they nearly got lynched. (Now what'd Gervase's guy suffocate from, d'you reckon...) I am guessing that you know about this reference and didn't use it here because it's near Geoffrey neither geographically nor temporally, but in case you <i>haven't</i> met it I have some references at the end of <a href="http://tenthmedieval.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/leeds-report-3-wednesday-15th-july/" rel="nofollow">this post of mine</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-8333291221437760632011-09-20T00:27:13.922-04:002011-09-20T00:27:13.922-04:00I like where the scribes placed him.
The Annales ...I like where the scribes placed him.<br /><br />The Annales Cambriae opens British history with the terse line, 573 The Battle of Arfderydd. D. N. Dumville calls it the 'historical horizon' of British history and it is here in a 12th cen m.s of the Annales that an improving scribe will add that Merlin fled the battle mad into the woods. The place where his prophecy begins.<br /><br />He is placed right at the start of our dreaming and stands looking out at the whole of the story as it unfolds, speaking of what has past,what is present and what is to come.<br /><br />A most interesting figure.Jebhttp://sbej.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-84541851440585750962011-09-19T11:08:31.115-04:002011-09-19T11:08:31.115-04:00Interesting as usual. What I am speculating about ...Interesting as usual. What I am speculating about (and writing about and giving lecture somewhere) is: which way those narratives affects the interpretation of the past, or, maybe, are affected by the interpretation of the past?<br /><br />Best<br /><br />PaoloAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-8881505501383451582011-09-19T11:07:31.047-04:002011-09-19T11:07:31.047-04:00What I am speculating about (and writing about and...What I am speculating about (and writing about and giving lecture somewhere) is: which way those narratives affects the interpretation of the past, or, maybe, are affected by the interpretation of the past?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com