I'm such a dork...
May. 29th, 2007 08:43 pm...but I'm oh, so happy!
Since moving in and the consequent shuffling of stuff (some of which was still unpacked) when![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
charlotteb_ moved in, I haven't been able to find my Loeb Classical Library editions of Augustine, Boethius, Bede (two volumes), Jerome, and Prudentius. This is no small thing, as each of the books runs about $20 each. (Not to mention that my mother would crucify me if she ever found out: she and Dad got me 4 of the books [Boethius, Bede II, Jerome, and Prudentius] for my birthday this year.)
Well, today I made a concentrated search and found them! Yay! < Grover Monster >I am so happeeeeeeeeeee.< /Grover Monster >
The only down side is that they were with my copy of Herwig Wolfram's History of the Goths. It is, bar none, the worst history book I have ever read. It is so dense, it makes plutonium look like meringue. It is an absolute, never-fails cure for insomnia. I have yet to make it through this book awake. A little sample:
The gards, the house, is both the frauja's (the lord's) dwelling and family: it includes his wife, children, relatives and all his dependents. His authority over the house was organized on the principle of retainership. The house comprised the person born into it, that is the actual family member (innakunds), as well as the "housemate" and retainer (ingardja). Occasionally, though, these two terms were used synonymously, which indicates that there was little political difference between these two groups.
And it goes on just as dryly as it began. Sometime in the 1960s or '70s, historians caught the idea--rather like a virus--that they had to write dully to be taken seriously as historians. Oy.
Since moving in and the consequent shuffling of stuff (some of which was still unpacked) when
charlotteb_ moved in, I haven't been able to find my Loeb Classical Library editions of Augustine, Boethius, Bede (two volumes), Jerome, and Prudentius. This is no small thing, as each of the books runs about $20 each. (Not to mention that my mother would crucify me if she ever found out: she and Dad got me 4 of the books [Boethius, Bede II, Jerome, and Prudentius] for my birthday this year.)Well, today I made a concentrated search and found them! Yay! < Grover Monster >I am so happeeeeeeeeeee.< /Grover Monster >
The only down side is that they were with my copy of Herwig Wolfram's History of the Goths. It is, bar none, the worst history book I have ever read. It is so dense, it makes plutonium look like meringue. It is an absolute, never-fails cure for insomnia. I have yet to make it through this book awake. A little sample:
The gards, the house, is both the frauja's (the lord's) dwelling and family: it includes his wife, children, relatives and all his dependents. His authority over the house was organized on the principle of retainership. The house comprised the person born into it, that is the actual family member (innakunds), as well as the "housemate" and retainer (ingardja). Occasionally, though, these two terms were used synonymously, which indicates that there was little political difference between these two groups.
And it goes on just as dryly as it began. Sometime in the 1960s or '70s, historians caught the idea--rather like a virus--that they had to write dully to be taken seriously as historians. Oy.
