June 2021 - Italy: The Name of the Rose

[Jehona, Classic Literature]

The choice for this month is The Name of the Rose.

[aPriL does feral sometimes]

I am learning a lot about what being a monk was about in 1327. I realize the action is taking place in a high-end monastery with scholars and it is not a typical neighborhood church establishment. It's interesting how superstitious fears mix into genuine academic researches.

[Helen]

I read Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts not long ago: a non-fiction introduction to some of the books that were produced in this kind of setting, so it's interesting to see the subject from a different angle.
Although, on the surface, these superstitions seem amusing to us today, when you look carefully there are plenty that still exist even now...

[aPriL does feral sometimes]

The ridiculous waste of these centuries of pseudo-logical philosophical debates parsing religious superstitions is what makes my brain flop around and die though.