[Sca-librarians] Fwd: [Carolingia] Are we REALLY a scholarly barony?

[Karyn Schmidt]

Verrrrry interesting.
 It's not worth the time to look it up -- but I wonder how many Victorian
revisionists are included.  Ja, they're German Victorian revisionists, but
still...  Baring-Gould on the saints? Jusserand?  Harnack?
Hennecke-Schneemelcher?  Ick!

I appreciate the list for the categories that I don't usually think much
about -- like rhetoric and French literature, though I think I'll pay more
attention to agriculture and cookery than to textual criticism. It also
gives me ideas for classes to teach.  There are some areas that SCA has
ignored.

When I get to be a crusty old academic fart, working hard to preserve the
world I learned about  in the face of newer scholarship, I'll make a list
like this -- with very different sources, thank you.  In the meantime, I'll
enjoy being an SCA librarian -- appreciating the old-boy-scholars for their
contribution, and loving the opportunity to know experientially and by
persona research.

Kudrun þe Pilegrim
Karyn þe Libraryn


> I just happened upon this list of 70 Things Every Medievalist Should
> Know.  Hah! Now I know what an ignoramus I am.
>
> http://www.the-orb.net/wemsk/originalwemsk.html
>
> --Old Marian