tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post6614830690732635746..comments2024-03-28T11:03:41.050-05:00Comments on Unlocked Wordhoard: The Mytho-Historical MedievalDr. Richard Scott Nokeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348275071082514870noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-71480062048944747082007-09-08T00:51:00.000-05:002007-09-08T00:51:00.000-05:00Maybe I should clarify that my comments about "mat...Maybe I should clarify that my comments about "mature, well-adjusted" Europeans and Euro-diaspora was meant to be snarky. It was a general dig at the narcissism of modernity.Dr. Richard Scott Nokeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01348275071082514870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-36825893423160383702007-09-07T20:57:00.000-05:002007-09-07T20:57:00.000-05:00Any construction of the medieval as a broad period...<I>Any construction of the medieval as a broad period is by necessity mytho-historical.</I><BR/><BR/>*nods ferociously* it's like the king arthur thing... is there every any point trying to "find" Camelot when it really exists in our heads?<BR/><BR/>it's fascinating how some parts of the "medieval" catch onto the imagination, though... the Arthur we imagine is, at the very most, a Malorian cone, and in fact owes a fair bit to modern reworkings. Tennyson, anyone?<BR/><BR/>I'm always amused by the church thing. A bunch of Christians (well, protestants, anyway) will complain that in the Middle Ages the church was dominated by the state... And meanwhile, the secular world compares any instance of church interference in state politics with the "medieval"!<BR/><BR/><I>something Europeans had to go through to become the mature, well-adjusted people they are (and by extention, their diaspora as well)</I><BR/>interesting... i'd never thought about the relationship between medievalisms and colonialism.<BR/><BR/>hmmm. anyway. interesting post, as per usual. now i'm going to stop procrastinating and go back to St Christopher.highlyeccentrichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14049193555531624608noreply@blogger.com