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Okay, something big enough to jolt me back into a professional, academic mindset skittered across my inbox today.
Okay, that didn't come out as big as I thought it would. Here's a transcription.
Now, Gouguenheim is no nutter from the fringe. On the other hand, the French are kind of, well, French (thank you, Eddie Izzard). Not to mention that the French's contemporary politics have nearly always influenced their historiography (thank you, Duby[1]), and France is having Issues with Muslim immigrants right now.
At any rate, medieval and renaissance studies is about to have a real brawl. And I'm gonna be there!
1. I'm not a huge fan of the wikipedia entry for Duby, but it's the best I can do without being subscribed to Encyclopedia Britannica Premium.
Okay, that didn't come out as big as I thought it would. Here's a transcription.
Sylvain Gouguenheim has recently caused a controversy in claiming that European culture owes nothing to Arabic culture, but that the successive renewals of learning of the Middle Ages and Renaissance were entirely of Greek inspiration (Aristote au Mont Saint-Michel: Les racines grecques de l'Europe chretienne.) This lecture weighs the relative importance of translations made from Greek and those made from Arabic in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, in an attempt to achieve a balanced view of what European culture owed to its ancient forerunners and to then contemporary Byzantine and Islamic civilizations.
Now, Gouguenheim is no nutter from the fringe. On the other hand, the French are kind of, well, French (thank you, Eddie Izzard). Not to mention that the French's contemporary politics have nearly always influenced their historiography (thank you, Duby[1]), and France is having Issues with Muslim immigrants right now.
At any rate, medieval and renaissance studies is about to have a real brawl. And I'm gonna be there!
1. I'm not a huge fan of the wikipedia entry for Duby, but it's the best I can do without being subscribed to Encyclopedia Britannica Premium.
