January 2011
13 posts
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Beowulf Socks! →
“O wrangling schools, that search what fire
Shall burn this world, had none...”
– Donne’s “The Fever.”
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A Translation of My Own
Part of St. Francis’ Laudes Creaturarum, better known in English as “The Canticle of the Sun.” It’s just such a happy, sweet little poem. Reminds me of Kate Beaton’s comic about him.
Ostensibly for me thesis. So here it goes.
Altissimu, onnipotente bon Signore, Tue so le laude, la gloria e l’honore et onne benedictione.
Good Lord, most high and powerful,
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Errata
Had another author writ a Book to expose the Abuses in Law, or in Physick, he believes the Professors in either Faculty, would have so far from resenting it, as to have given him Thanks for his pains, especially if he had made an honourable Reservation for the true Pracktice of either Science: but Religion, they tell us, ought not to be ridiculed, and they tell us Truth, yet surely the...
“How do you think a medieval person would react to the modern world?”...”
– A conversation I had with a friend some time ago.
HOOKERS GALORE
fuckyeahancienthistory:
I knew that title would get attention. This picture should, too:
A prostitute and her client represented on a fresco in a brothel in Pompeii. Gotta love those Romans.
So this post stems from a question from genericeaglecomic that made me laugh because it contained a pun and puns are goddamn awesome. The question was about the ancientness of prostitution as well as its...
Romania declares witchcraft a legally-recognized... →
Umbrawit
Icho þoucht quest facere da v. ans fa, m’ainz iahres faran & angregient, ergo ic sitte adora, scryvenynge fra minims, e cogito pro ritrovarme medde liz oras, pro nauchte.