bow to the medieval god
Okay as of today my First Year seminar prof. is a god!
He showed us the Manuscript that he has been working on with some colleges at Yale. This is the website that Yale has about the manuscript. It's amazing! Arthurian Manuscript to see the scans of the pages you must click on "view digital images..." trust me you will be floored! To see the extremely illuminated pages you have to head toward the end of the manuscript. This manuscript is said to one of the most illuminated Arthurian texts.
The group of people that my Prof. was working with transcribed what it says, and all that fun stuff. It's in old french. Which I though sounded quite a bit like german.
They have been working on it since 2000, and the first part is being published as we speak. The focus of the book is on the illumination. Prof. Blue read us his essay which will appear in the book, and it was just inspiring.
After class today I really knew why I love history so much, and why I'm going into it. After seeing what Prof. Blue has done, I most definitely want to continue my German studies so that someday I may be able to do the same type of thing. It's my dream to do this sort of thing and I just cannot tell you how inspiring this was.
I'm seriously rethinking the diplomacy thing. As much as I want to do that and how much more marketable it is I still have this passion to just be historian, and not worry about the money. I think I'll end up doing both.
I know not of you won't be as interested in this as I am, but oh well.
I'm sad that I'm not doing any j-term classes, because my Prof. is doing a medieval course about french texts and the like, and they will be talking about manuscripts in a great length; reading them, and the illumination and that sort of thing. But it's kind of hard for me because I'm going to be in Europe at that time, well for a week.
He showed us the Manuscript that he has been working on with some colleges at Yale. This is the website that Yale has about the manuscript. It's amazing! Arthurian Manuscript to see the scans of the pages you must click on "view digital images..." trust me you will be floored! To see the extremely illuminated pages you have to head toward the end of the manuscript. This manuscript is said to one of the most illuminated Arthurian texts.
The group of people that my Prof. was working with transcribed what it says, and all that fun stuff. It's in old french. Which I though sounded quite a bit like german.
They have been working on it since 2000, and the first part is being published as we speak. The focus of the book is on the illumination. Prof. Blue read us his essay which will appear in the book, and it was just inspiring.
After class today I really knew why I love history so much, and why I'm going into it. After seeing what Prof. Blue has done, I most definitely want to continue my German studies so that someday I may be able to do the same type of thing. It's my dream to do this sort of thing and I just cannot tell you how inspiring this was.
I'm seriously rethinking the diplomacy thing. As much as I want to do that and how much more marketable it is I still have this passion to just be historian, and not worry about the money. I think I'll end up doing both.
I know not of you won't be as interested in this as I am, but oh well.
I'm sad that I'm not doing any j-term classes, because my Prof. is doing a medieval course about french texts and the like, and they will be talking about manuscripts in a great length; reading them, and the illumination and that sort of thing. But it's kind of hard for me because I'm going to be in Europe at that time, well for a week.