[Sca-cooks] Overdocumentation

[Martin G. Diehl]

Bill Fisher wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:02:51 -0500, Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / 
> Jenne Heise <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net> wrote:
> > *shrug* It's certainly possible to explain one's 
> > documentation in persona in many cases, by simply stating 
> > your sources. I more or less did this with my Poliudie 
> > menu, and I'll be doing it when I write the 'period 
> > treatise' for the Laurel Prize in March (because it's 
> > absolutely period to reference the authorities!)

Agreed, very period ... 

I read in ... 

Gimpel, Jean; "Medieval Machine: the Industrial Revolution 
of the Middle Ages"; 1976, pub. Penguin, ISBN 0-14-004514-7

In chapter 7, the Gimpel writes of "the spirit of 
inventiveness"  ... 

    "The spirit of inventiveness that accompanied this 
    outlook was only possible because medieval society 
    believed in progress, a concept unknown by the 
    classical world.  Medieval men refused to be tied 
    down by tradition.  

    As Gilbert de Tournai wrote: "Never will we find 
    truth if we content ourselves with what is already 
    known . . . These things that have been written 
    before us are not laws but guides.  The truth is 
    open to all, for it is not totally possessed.  

    And Bernard, Master of the episcopal school at 
    Chartres from 1114 to 1118, said "We are as 
    dwarfs mounted on the shoulders of giants, so 
    that although we perceive many more things than 
    they, it is not because our vision is more 
    piercing or our stature higher, but because we 
    are carried and elevated higher thanks to their 
    gigantic size."

    In Chartres study of the seven liberal arts, the 
    trivium -- grammar, rhetoric, dialectic -- had 
    priority, but study of the quadrivium -- geometry, 
    arithmetic, music, and astronomy -- was also 
    considered essential.  

    It is a remarkable fact that at the instigation 
    of the Cathedral School of Chartres, the seven 
    liberal arts were carved in stone, personified 
    and holding their attributes, on the Royal Portal 
    of the Cathedral.  

Imagine that, "carved in stone"  

> > "I got this recipe from a Spanish chap called de Nola"...
> >
> > But then, I'm Polish, and all Polish people of 
> > significance in period spoke Latin. Obviously you must 
> > be speaking Latin too.
> > 
> > -- 
>>  Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net

> True, true, but there is just no way a 10th C Irishman 
> is going to know about things after his period.  *shrugs*

Some have said that the Tuatha de Danaan are able to part 
the mists and veils between the worlds ... that they are 
able to travel to lands and times other than ours.  
Perhaps you or one in your line gave aid to such a gifted 
one, and he in return, foretold what might come to pass.  

> I'm willing to go with suspension of disbelief for the 
> most part though.
> 
> Cadoc

-- 
Martin G. Diehl

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Reality: That which remains after you stop thinking about it.
  inspired by P. K. Dick