tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214649686669524792.post8553055395630068194..comments2023-11-05T10:33:58.204+00:00Comments on Hwæt The Swyve?: On a Global Middle AgesYork CMS Postmedieval Reading Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10679333256880248770noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214649686669524792.post-6313990566575139452010-03-19T18:38:34.975+00:002010-03-19T18:38:34.975+00:00Hi Jeffrey, thanks for the comment and the recomme...Hi Jeffrey, thanks for the comment and the recommendations! My project is moving along pretty well…though I’m running into some translating issues concerning words with no direct equivalent in English. And then there’s the debate I’m having with myself about whether I should leave the names of people and places as they are in the text, or use their English names. <br /><br />I’m afraid I’m not familiar with Gaunt or Altschul’s work, and I would definitely appreciate references. I’ll admit that I’ve been focusing mostly on translating this text and only have a bit of secondary literature so far. Right now I’m reading Vicente L. Rafael’s “Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule” which I am really enjoying. I've also recently gotten Dipesh Chakrabarty’s article “Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History,” and Gyan Prakash’s “Writing Post-Orientalist Histories in the Third World." Planning next to look at some Spivak and Derrida perhaps…Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16339751884594794888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214649686669524792.post-66789184894070150032010-03-13T11:58:26.069+00:002010-03-13T11:58:26.069+00:00postSam, it has taken me a while to catch up on my...postSam, it has taken me a while to catch up on my blog reading and I wanted to say: I enjoyed your post and wish you well with your topic. I've been trying very hard to push at a global or transnational Middle Ages in my own work: I used Gloria Anzaldua to rethink the Welsh borderlands in "The Postcolonial Middle Ages"; see also its companion volume, "Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages." There have been two useful surveys on Postcolonial medieval work recently: Simon Gaunt and Nadia Altschul. Let me know if you'd like references.<br /><br />JeffreyJ J Cohenhttp://jeffreyjeromecohen.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214649686669524792.post-70437342460189826092010-02-25T22:10:24.350+00:002010-02-25T22:10:24.350+00:00postSam?! I quite like that...quite like postmedie...postSam?! I quite like that...quite like postmedievals as well…<br /><br />Anyway, I wouldn’t mind running a session next term. :) I just hope that I have enough research done by then (I suppose if I didn’t...well, let’s just not think about that). As for the splatter gun, you know, it does have its advantages—you can use it at a close range, it’s immediately effective, and it allows you to clear the path for others behind you. At least, this is what I gather its properties are from the 1/4 summer I wasted addicted to Jak 3.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16339751884594794888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1214649686669524792.post-16437735781821968492010-02-25T15:25:06.377+00:002010-02-25T15:25:06.377+00:00Excellent post, sam (or should that be postSam/pos...Excellent post, sam (or should that be postSam/post-Sam).<br /><br />I know you and I have discussed the possibilities for widening the focus of the reading group out of the merely European and into the globalised Middle Ages - it would be excellent if you'd run a session on it next term!<br /><br />You already know I am dead jealous of your dissertation topic/scope etc. - you will actually be 'adding something to the episteme of our time' (to (mis)quote Ben), whereas I'll just be using the 'splattergun' (:p) approach on Codex Ashmole 61.<br /><br />Anyway, it's great to have you posting on here, and come on, the rest of you postmedievals (since Ben's called you that already, the name's going to stick) - let's get some more contributions, to ease the pressure from me and Ben!<br /><br />Much love,<br /><br />MikeYork CMS Postmedieval Reading Grouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10679333256880248770noreply@blogger.com