tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post2492012159454155636..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: A past ageFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-30478980462594381012021-08-13T14:54:01.039+01:002021-08-13T14:54:01.039+01:00Well, crud. That's exactly the level of Latin ...Well, crud. That's exactly the level of Latin literature I'm interested in, or maybe even a little lower, so I feel really freaking embarrassed and horrified to find myself sometimes cast by others in the part of a "Latin expert." I'm no more a Latin expert than I am in any of my other languages, and I fully expected myself to "get more use" out of them. <br /><br Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-50097974006514432082021-08-10T12:34:33.601+01:002021-08-10T12:34:33.601+01:00At my old-established grammar school only a third ...At my old-established grammar school only a third of boys (the A-stream) had compulsory Latin to O-Level in the 1960s. However, when I went up to Durham to read modern history in 1969 Latin at least to O-Level was a course requirement. <br /><br />One of the Prelims papers was 'Christendom and Islam in the mid-12th century' and we had to study excerpts from Otto of Freising, Odo of Deuil,John Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09027156691859606002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-23181286287398670472021-08-10T07:47:17.091+01:002021-08-10T07:47:17.091+01:00I remember the sixties. I recall someone telling m...I remember the sixties. I recall someone telling me, circa 1966-1967 that Roman Catholics used a strange exotic language in their worship called Latin. <br /><br />Come late 1969, and I had completed eight years of primary school, and had to choose which subjects I wished to study at high school. There was a compulsory core of History, Maths, Science and English. In addition to that one could Grant Milburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11381331872077276383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-9723405286209170022021-08-10T05:19:12.769+01:002021-08-10T05:19:12.769+01:00I, too, once had a copy of this fine work. I don&...I, too, once had a copy of this fine work. I don't lnow what happened to it.<br /><br />AvB.Albrecht von Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12996637489269911349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-15053950872655611862021-08-10T01:32:43.190+01:002021-08-10T01:32:43.190+01:00Indeed I remember in the History section of Trinit...Indeed I remember in the History section of Trinity College library, carved deep into the top of a reading desk: BEDE IS SO BORING... Well, I assumed it referred to the Venomous Bede himself rather than to the college's much-loved philosophy tutor <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/31/bede-rundle" rel="nofollow">Bede Rundle</a>, who acquired his name because his father had william arthurshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16447813388196156894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-36119813548883227022021-08-09T23:16:03.124+01:002021-08-09T23:16:03.124+01:00A digital version of such a study is The Classical...A digital version of such a study is The Classical Anthology -- https://classicalanthology.theclassicslibrary.com/ -- which supplies roughly what the remembered book does, FYI.Jim Bowmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03032003470886876268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-20097353094435918662021-08-09T12:39:17.155+01:002021-08-09T12:39:17.155+01:00And those who had read Modern History (ut olim era...And those who had read Modern History (ut olim erat) at the Older University would already have studied Bede (in Latin, natch) in their first term to prepare for History Prelims.. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06630737344250683898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-7558353100080346532021-08-09T11:53:54.240+01:002021-08-09T11:53:54.240+01:00This all from memory as I have lost my copy of thi...This all from memory as I have lost my copy of this book, bought second hand in the 1970s. <i>A Classical Anthology</i> by LA and RWL Wilding (Faber, 1955), a selection of representative passages from well-loved classical authors, had Loeb-style, original tongue on the left with translation on the facing page. The editors' preface suggested a hope that the book would revive the memories of &william arthurshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16447813388196156894noreply@blogger.com