tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post5467469830861209917..comments2024-02-07T03:12:59.031-05:00Comments on Blogenspiel: small hiatusAnother Damned Medievalisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-58544348171364676852008-09-26T08:46:00.000-04:002008-09-26T08:46:00.000-04:00You sound like you need to get a Sky subscription....You sound like you need to get a Sky subscription. Pity about the sad lack thereof in Slacville :-)<BR/><BR/>As for poor Alan Curbishley . . . well, he may have jumped in the end, but they were very careful about leaving the window open, and then Zola immediately got everything Curbishley'd been asking for.<BR/><BR/>On the humanities versus soc sci debate, this is where being a product of the most ruthlessly empirical historical tradition around is so much fun . . . we don't care about where the theory comes from as long as it works, and we don't care whether you call us a humanity or a social science (unless if being a social science gets us money from ESRC, who normally have more dosh than AHRC).Wegiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04197052728556472777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-8048131840867029322008-09-26T08:06:00.000-04:002008-09-26T08:06:00.000-04:00Except that history came first.Except that history came first.Another Damned Medievalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-66481130572519819502008-09-26T03:33:00.000-04:002008-09-26T03:33:00.000-04:00It seems to me that a lot if not most history cour...It seems to me that a lot if not most history courses actually straddle the line between humanities and social sciences. A lot of historical writing is actually political science, sociology or anthropology (there really are no great differences between these disciplines) set in the past. The only clear cases of history being a humanity rather than a social science are things like intellectual history.J. Otto Pohlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07457089758142264049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-35515680016470544612008-09-25T15:03:00.000-04:002008-09-25T15:03:00.000-04:00Nope -- revising the readings for this semester's ...Nope -- revising the readings for this semester's classes, because the preps and/or the books are new, and things aren't flowing well.Another Damned Medievalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-31440232089618218822008-09-25T08:39:00.000-04:002008-09-25T08:39:00.000-04:00So, wait, you're revising syllabi? And since the s...So, wait, you're revising syllabi? And since the semester's started, I'm presuming these are syllabi for NEXT semester? What is up with THAT??<BR/><BR/>(From someone who always finished her syllabi the night before classes started. ;-D)New Kid on the Hallwayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04982506415757771218noreply@blogger.com