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 I'm a student pursuing a doctoral degree in late medieval history. My main interests include but are not limited to Latin, Italian, cultural theory, educational curriculum, historiography, cognitive processes, language-theory, gender relations and THE WESTERN CANON (mwahaha); i am not particularly interesting, avant-garde or risque; My main hobbies include the exciting activities of cooking, baking, going to the gym, eating green apple-caramel lollipops, restaurant reviewing and acting as child-like and sassy as possible. I keep these entries from the years of my life - no matter how i feel about them today - available because i find it useful to revisit events i now interpret differently. My name is heather, i'm of Montreal and i was born in the nefarious, ominous year 1984. |
Image via Wikipedia During much of the Middle Ages, the most common brevia texts to be copied out were charms against a sudden death. Our current culture idealizes a death that is swift and painless with no time for reflection. There is no “ars moriendi” or “art of dying.” I often find, when people inadvertently presume [...] There were two distinct verse traditions in English in the fourteenth century: a system evolving from Old English (and German in general) which depended on the number of stressed syllables in a line and linked by alliteration of initial sounds (no rhyming); a system, beginning in the twelfth century, evolving from Romantic models (Latin and [...] |
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