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Sunday, August 24, 2008
4 commentsIn lieu of meaningful posting
Because I am in denial about many things at the moment, some personal, most having to do with the FIVE hours I teach tomorrow and the syllabi I haven't quite finished, I give you ... humour.
You Might Be A Medievalist If...
-Your secondary sources are somebody else's primary sources.
-Everyone else on your conference panel has taken holy orders.
-You have a favorite decree of the Fourth Lateran Council.
-Your particular field of study could be wiped out by a car accident.
-You've ever been asked "the truth" about King Arthur.
-You refer to the American Revolution as a "recent development."
-You add the word "yet" to the statement "I don't know that language."
-You specify which level of hell your day has been like.
-You call the renaissance "a dirty lie."Labels: humor, stuff about the Middle Ages, teaching
Another Damned Medievalist 5:19 PM Link
4 Comments:
Excellent. I especially like 1, 2, and 7.
By 
Thoroughly Educated, at
8:15 PM
Right now I want to add one about strangers assuming you are a Ricardian simply because you think historiographically rather than judgementally, but that's just me, this week, I think, having been accused of being a Ricardian by a stranger.
Mostly I get the Arthur one and the language one. It's how I know I'm still a Medivealist, despite what I'm actually spending my days doing.
I suspect that being a Medievalist becomes embedded in the bone far too easily.
By 
gillpolack, at
9:06 AM
18th Century history?
CURRENT EVENTS.
By TheCrankyProfessor, at
11:44 PM
If I may make an addition...
When your sister mentions historical developments during the inter-war period, your response is "Just a moment, which wars?"
Another Damned Medievalist delivers her spiel.
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