tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132258260849081357.post3811950903002471501..comments2023-03-23T10:17:50.232-04:00Comments on Mony wylsum way: Modes of perception or stylistic conventions?Hannah Kilpatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750010843246514032noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132258260849081357.post-55012498407088461082011-05-23T20:26:25.658-04:002011-05-23T20:26:25.658-04:00Wow - I had actually not come across this previous...Wow - I had actually not come across this previously. Which is probably a good thing because I may have thrown inanimate objects rather than engaging the critical faculties as you have done. <br /><br />As to clerical authors, and production of chronicles in particular: what tenthmedieval said... Even the earliest annals I would argue have an implicit intent of tracking the events that will Kathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16096829586344513927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132258260849081357.post-87398971888318150112010-11-29T14:14:40.320-05:002010-11-29T14:14:40.320-05:00Odd! My email didn't tell me about any comment...Odd! My email didn't tell me about any comments to be moderated, so I just assumed it had been there for a while and I'd accidentally deleted it in a sweep of my spam folder. Ah, the mysteries of the internet.Hannah Kilpatrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06750010843246514032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132258260849081357.post-3913749931917729912010-11-29T08:23:34.335-05:002010-11-29T08:23:34.335-05:00Ah, yes, blogging as intellectual exorcism, done t...Ah, yes, blogging as intellectual exorcism, done that for sure. And, I only left the comment last night, it was there and answered by the next time I looked, do not reproach you etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132258260849081357.post-73936434768482389192010-11-28T17:01:03.744-05:002010-11-28T17:01:03.744-05:00Oops. I fail at noticing there was a comment to a...Oops. I fail at noticing there was a comment to approve. Sorry about that!<br /><br />I suspect a large element of what Brandt is picking up on is, as you say, that there is a common mediaeval perception that everything has a meaning and a cause beyond that which is accessible to human understanding. Everything in history is shaped by the hand omnipotent, which stands outside of time and sees Hannah Kilpatrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06750010843246514032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132258260849081357.post-67309253618710952242010-11-28T16:14:58.533-05:002010-11-28T16:14:58.533-05:00I've heard of this argument before and basical...I've heard of this argument before and basically ignored it as being both chauvinist and nuts. The whole genre of Providential history refutes it, for example, as does almost every saint's life ever: cause, insult to the saint; effect, humiliating death or injury! Causation: explicit. So I left it alone after thinking that far. I'm actually rather intrigued that you've made any ofAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com