tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960015633887891784.post8885984805141541238..comments2024-01-05T09:46:18.955+01:00Comments on Dekodet: MiddelalderskBjørn Arehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01491085976273836365noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960015633887891784.post-28158025922274928412011-11-22T09:49:13.273+01:002011-11-22T09:49:13.273+01:00Jeg har merket meg det og venter spent på å lese b...Jeg har merket meg det og venter spent på å lese boken;-)<br /><br />Men på meg synes det som om han i utgangspunktet har en teori om fortidens mennesker som ikke stemmer og dermed feilleser både statistikk og andre kilder. <br /><br />Siterer en annen som kan noe om stoffet, fra kommentarfeltet i Quodlibeta om Pinkers tall og tanker om middelalderen, Tim O'Neill:<br /><br /><i>I've often come across people quoting some of the funnier (to us) bits in Medieval etiquette manuals and concluding that this means people in the Middle Ages must have needed to be told not to relieve themselves in front of ladies, befoul the hangings with filth or touch their dangly bits in public. <br /><br />What these people (and, it seems, Pinker) don't understand is that these books were written for the instruction of household pages. These were not adults, but small boys between six and fourteen years old. And these instructions would have been for the new pages - ie the six to seven year olds.<br /><br />Anyone who has been in the company of a large number of six to seven year old boys will know that they need admonitions about passing gas, playing with themselves and public urination regularly in any age.<br /><br />Pinker doesn't understand what he's reading here.</i>Bjørn Arehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01491085976273836365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960015633887891784.post-37665623152669649732011-11-22T02:33:49.589+01:002011-11-22T02:33:49.589+01:00Betydningen av en sterkere og mer troverdig ordens...Betydningen av en sterkere og mer troverdig ordensmakt som alternativ til personlig gjengjeldelse har forreten også fått sitt eget kapittel hos Pinker.Martinbghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16612984920863979519noreply@blogger.com