and he is entirely conventional in his advice. He even offers us an instance of the vertical probing back to the original source for meaning in his etymological gloss on the names “quadrivium” and “trivium.” They are
Thus, whereas friends of mine had specific and precise rules about appropriate viewing (Hollyoaks, yes, the ‘special episode’ aired after the watershed, no), I had a blanket ban, and could therefore cling to plausible deniability should I ever be required to admit there might be a distincti...
The recipes and treatments are written in Old English (Anglo Saxon), and translations are few and far between, especially descriptions and meanings of the words. There is a movement to translate all Old English Texts so that the newer generations will be able to see how their ancestors thought...
It’s a large word with many meanings and usages, but the one we’re concerned with today is its synonym,repercussion. Frankly, a story of actions without consequences is not much of a story. Every choice our characters make should have repercussions, changing their lives for good or bad. ...
that the similarities and differences fit together in an historically specific idea of childhood, and that, as part of such an historical construct, even the similarities become differences, because their different context gives them meanings different from the ones they have today." See Medievalia ...
According to the common law, a boy or a girl was considered a child from the time he or she was born until the age of around twelve. At this age the child was considered capable enough to differentiate between right and wrong, thus rendering them responsible for their acts. ...
We see, then, that the complication here is that a string of related meanings are set off by the one word, “kynd”. It may mean simply, ‘our nature is derived from love and so in our natural state we crave love’ or, if the allusion is to the goddess Kynd or Natura, it means...
Antonio Machado, one of the 20th century’s greatest poets, explored memory through recurrent symbols of multiple meanings, the dimly drawn boundaries of dream and reality, and time past and present. A consummate creator of introspective Modernist poems in Soledades (1903, augmented 1907; “Solitud...