Random Latinity

So, I'm sharpening my claws Latin skills on a chronicle passage that the ever-lovely angevin2  emailed me yesterday.

I find it amusing that I must work on Latin translations in Courier font. Because it is what Dr. Mantello[1] used, and so medieval Latin doesn't look quite right in any other font.




1. For those of you a.)new to my journal and b.)knowledgable of such things, yes, I had that Dr. Mantello for Medieval Latin. The guy who's name is on the seminal textbook, Medieval Latin, and yes, it was excruciating. Really nice guy, though.)

Sad, but true (and, honestly, kind of cute)...

Okay, one of my online students has checked in already, and she has begun to suck up: "Do you have a favorite manuscript you've translated?" Why, yes, yes I do. Let me tell you John of Salisbury's tale of Thomas Becket's assassination. "Once upon a time there was a way awesome archbishop, a rat bastard of a knight named FitzUrse, and a dreadfully, ahem, misguided king..."

Sekrit Teecher Stuff: Sucking up, done correctly, works. Hee. :)