Jean Thibodeau wrote: |
Peter, if my comments don't address your comments then maybe it's just that I'm misunderstanding your intent. :confused: :cool: |
That would only be the proof of the pudding Jean :lol:
Even though my background is from a related culture and I intent to communicate in your language does not mean we ' speak' the same language: I am myself and my experiences and that is different from your package which means that we are probably painting entirely different pictures with our respective wordings.
I am often surprised to read the different interpretations that can be read from the same words even here on this positively polite and wellmeaning forum where all noses are more or less pointed in the same direction.
I know that my map of the world is not a representation of the actual geography. This is the same for the maps the medieval people had.
I have here the manuscript of Gregorius van Tours and a doctorate scripture on him while I am also familiar with the region and the archeology. His world and his thinking are very well illustrated by this combination and maybe this is why I am so aware of the alienness.
Imagine too what during the 14th c. the effect the combination of the repeated outbreaks of the plague, the 100 year war and the christian scisma must have had in a world that actually became more wealthy per capitum because the total wealth was not decimated like the population was.
Another thing is that young children were usually not even named and when they were, not rarely in succession were given the same name untill one lived....
Anyway, the citation Sean Flynt gave gives me both an answer and food for thought.
peter