An archival scholar has to thumb through numerous copies of catalogues of manuscripts held by libraries and archives. Many of these were compiled in the 19th or early 20th centuries, and it has to be said this shows. Some time ago I was going through The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. […]
Monthly Archives: September 2010
The value of the Arts
I’ve recently begun to think that the Humanities are not called the Arts for no reason. In fact, I’m currently inclined to argue that that is a most apt descriptor, and much better than “science”. Science allows us to investigate and understand the universe in terms of its details; Art allows us to study and […]
Where it’s at
Presently I’m hoping to spend the next 6 months or so writing, and then polishing my thesis. And nothing else, inshallah. I’m hoping I can get it done in time to submit at the end of May, but we’ll see. The next two PhD Comics strips quite nicely sum up my situation:
It’s alive!
I’ve been thinking about resurrecting this blog for some time now. I think I was rather too ambitious originally, and then the lack of highbrow inertia got to me. Maybe I should stick to vignettes? In any case, when Neil recently wrote that blogging is “a nice warm up exercise for the mind and the […]