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My new office...
..is located near the Medieval Studies and Archaeology areas of the stacks. And so often titles like Six Thousand Years of Bread catch my eye as I walk by. One that has caught my eye, for being so obviously a product of the time it was published, is Those Gay Middle Ages.
I wasn't really expecting it to be a treatise on homosexuality in the medieval era, as it had the unmistakable signs of being pretty old and having been re-bound back when they were still hand-writing titles on rebound books, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that the first real sentence of the book was "Most historians of the Middle Ages make the grievous error of forgetting about the pigs." The chapter is titled "Pigs Is Pigs."
It was published in 1938 and from my quick perusal of it, the title is meant to be ironic, and quite a lot of it deals with how the Middle Ages were really horrible times, what with pigs in the street everywhere and people dropping dead of the plague. It's written with the sort of voice not really allowed in Serious History Books these days, with more character than the dispassionate narrator textbooks of today strive to achieve.
I wasn't really expecting it to be a treatise on homosexuality in the medieval era, as it had the unmistakable signs of being pretty old and having been re-bound back when they were still hand-writing titles on rebound books, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that the first real sentence of the book was "Most historians of the Middle Ages make the grievous error of forgetting about the pigs." The chapter is titled "Pigs Is Pigs."
It was published in 1938 and from my quick perusal of it, the title is meant to be ironic, and quite a lot of it deals with how the Middle Ages were really horrible times, what with pigs in the street everywhere and people dropping dead of the plague. It's written with the sort of voice not really allowed in Serious History Books these days, with more character than the dispassionate narrator textbooks of today strive to achieve.
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Although quite often the books don't live up to their titles. XD
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