SC - Introduction

[Rayne and Richard]

I like it....My new catch phrase is "could" have been.  Gosh, I am swayed so
easily.  :-)

The Middle Ages as they "could" have been...without all the stuff "I" wouldn't
want.

Rayne

Laura C Minnick wrote:

> Just a random comment here-
>
>         I don't use the phrase "The Middle Ages as they _should_ have
> been"- because that implies a value judgement that I think we are not in a
> position to make. I'm not into revisionist history. I DO say "the Middle
> Ages as it _could_ have been"- Kinder, gentler, more responsibility to
> honor, fewer germs, no religious persecutions... although I know that the
> Plague changed the face of Europe not only by killing people but also by
> disrupting and rearranging the economic systems- it could have been
> different but it wasn't.
>
> Just a small semantic thing, but it changes the view for me...
>
> 'Lainie
> -
> Laura C. Minnick
> -
> 'A Vaillans Coeurs Riens Impossible'
> -
> "Libraries have been the death of many great men, particularly the
> Bodleian."
>         Humfrey Wanley, c. 1731
>
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