[Sca-cooks] book review request

Ian Kusz sprucebranch at gmail.com
Wed Dec 29 17:20:48 PST 2010


Ah, sort of along the lines of, "Socrates is a man, therefore, if you are a
man, you are Socrates?"

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Pixel, Goddess and Queen <
pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com> wrote:

>
> What she said, on both counts. Tigner-Holmes is good if you use his
> sources--for instance, he's got some good bits from Alexander Neckham--but
> his interpretations of the sources are sometimes a bit suspect. Bumke is
> better.
>
> Margaret FitzWilliam
>
>
>
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2010, wheezul at canby.com wrote:
>
> My impression of the book, having read it several times, is that the
>> author uses his Latin/French source texts as a base, but only can be
>> trusted as far as his understanding about a certain subject reaches.  For
>> example, his take on the word treslissa is to translate it as knitting,
>> but in reality it is most likely the word for a type of twill weave as
>> found elsewhere - and not knitting.
>>
>> I think it's well worth reading to find the references and then going back
>> to the original to check!  At least he more or less references his sources
>> somewhat - it's sort of like Norris - good info, maybe true, needs
>> verification if you feel that the translation is tentative.
>>
>> I really like Bumke's Courtly Culture as a reference work much better -
>> especially if you are looking for some particular bits and pieces on 12th
>> century feasting.  This book is a translation of a German work and is more
>> based on Germanic sources so you don't necessarily get the English/French
>> rehash.
>> [Bumke, J. (1991). Courtly culture: Literature and society in the high
>> Middle Ages. Berkeley: University of California Press.]
>>
>> Katherine
>>
>> I got a book, "Daily Living in the 12th Century," by Urban Tigner Holmes,
>>> Jr.
>>>
>>> Is it accurate?  Well-researched?
>>>
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