"Stephen Greenblatt’s caricatured Middle Ages might have passed muster with Enlightenment-era historians" On THE SWERVE ow.ly/fMwcA
The Swerve, a book replete with errors of fact, has won the MLA James Russell Lowell Prize. WTF? mla.org/resources/awar…- Now that the Middle Ages have been renamed the Interswerve, I am changing my profession to Interswervist. #interswervology
In the Middle Ages, "pleasure seeking had come to seem philosophically indefensible," as the Wife of Bath's Prologue shows us. #TheSwerve
@jeffreyjcohen how painful do you think it is for me when I have to restock it in the bookstore on the NYT best seller wall?
RT @JonathanHsy: RT @jeffreyjcohen Check out @burnablebooks Swerve tweets in case you still think Greenblatt's book merited a prize. Hilarious yet painful.- In the medieval scriptorium, "absolute silence reigned," as shown by the gradual spread of silent reading from the late 10th c. #TheSwerve
- In the creation of medieval palimpsests, it was "the very rare scribe who actually cared about the work he was erasing." #TheSwerve
- As the history of biblical hermeneutics teaches us, "no medieval monk would have been encouraged to read ... between the lines." #TheSwerve
- In the Middle Ages, Lucretius was "forgotten," as demonstrated by the two Carolingian mss of the De Rerum Natura now at Leiden. #TheSwerve
- In the Middle Ages, "there were more important things to worry about than the fate of books," Chaucer demonstrates. #TheSwerve
- In the Middle Ages, horizons were constantly scanned for barbarians, leading to a widespread rejection of pleasure. #TheSwerve
@JonathanHsy @burnablebooks I feel like a medievalist Wife of Bath listening to Jankyn Greenblatt read from his Tweets of Wikked Stereotypes
@S_moores @jeffreyjcohen Nah, don't worry about it. Apparently, nothing that happened before the swerve matters.
@jeffreyjcohen are you arguing that anything of value happened before 1520 or so? Interesting... Because greenblatt doesn't. #TheSwerve
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