See message below, what do you think?<br><br>Maybe I'm just being picky because I've got Pennsic withdrawal or something but here goes:<br>First the title - this is not 'Things every medievalist should know', this is 'Subjects that a (presumably) well-rounded medievalist should have some basic acquaintance with; and references to those subjects that are of course sufficiently familiar to everybody that no more that the author is required in most cases and if you aren't that level of knowledgable AND you only read English well you are just one of the great unwashed and might as well go away and stop taking up the rareified air around here.'
<br><br>Second - that's not the use of taxonomy that I'm familiar with, but I freely admit that's a term that has appeared since my student days, and seems to cover a lot of ground.<br><br>Ki-lin<br>Librarian has-been without actually having been anything. In college it's called Liberal Arts.
<br>"You want flies wit dat?" Umberto Gecko<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Marian Walke</b> <<a href="mailto:marian@buttery.org">
marian@buttery.org</a>><br>Date: Aug 16, 2007 9:56 PM<br>Subject: [Carolingia] Are we REALLY a scholarly barony?<br>To: carolingia <<a href="mailto:carolingia@indra.com">carolingia@indra.com</a>><br><br></span><br>
I just happened upon this list of 70 Things Every Medievalist Should<br>Know. Hah! Now I know what an ignoramus I am.<br><br><a href="http://www.the-orb.net/wemsk/originalwemsk.html">http://www.the-orb.net/wemsk/originalwemsk.html
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