tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post5524510683571451114..comments2023-10-31T07:32:11.739-04:00Comments on Wormtalk and Slugspeak: Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566889846240013567noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-35957790552628807892008-08-18T18:37:00.000-04:002008-08-18T18:37:00.000-04:00Nice post. You're right about Ward-Perkins, overa...Nice post. You're right about Ward-Perkins, overall a great writing style that makes reading about pottery shards very interesting indeed. However, I do not think he proves his point, but that's another matter.<BR/><BR/>3 Books I Wish I'd Written:<BR/><BR/>Pride and Prodigies by Andy Orchard<BR/><BR/>Charles Wright, _The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature_--great book full of solid scholarship in areas I want to know more about.<BR/><BR/>Timothy Graham and Ray Clemens _Introduction to Manuscript Studies_<BR/>Finally! A good textbook for codicology! <BR/><BR/>Scholar I wish I could write like: Paul E. Szarmach, I love his writing style as well as his scholarship.<BR/><BR/>3 Non-Medieval Books<BR/><BR/>Philip Davies _Scribes and Scholars_ I actually did start writing this book, even before the author did....but long, sad story. The book is about canonical processes in Second Temple Judaism.<BR/><BR/>Spice: A History of a Temptation by Jack Turner, great little book on the medieval and early modern spice trade.<BR/><BR/>Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz....retraces Cook's voyages in the Pacific. Great book.theswainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-22761925567604065322008-08-18T10:04:00.000-04:002008-08-18T10:04:00.000-04:00"If I feel physically as if the top of my hea..."If I feel physically as if the top of my head is coming off, then I know that is poetry."<BR/><BR/> --Emily DickinsonJohn Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.com