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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern | Stephen Greenblatt

#stephangteenblatt #theswerve #deconstruction

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern | Stephen Greenblatt

#stephangteenblatt #theswerve #deconstruction

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GingerAntics

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern | Stephen Greenblatt

#stephangteenblatt #theswerve #deconstruction

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Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World | Catherine Nixey

#7days7books that had an impact on me. A two for one deal, because... (no explanations allowed, just read them and you‘ll figure it out).
#CatherineNixey #TheDarkeningAge #StephenGreenblatt #TheSwerve

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern | Stephen Greenblatt

Bill Nye‘s book made me think of this quote in relation to a documentary I once watched called “Jesus Camp.” If you ever get the chance to see it, it‘s truly astounding. This boy who is homeschooled by his Uber Christian parents says “I think Galileo did the right thing by giving up science for Jesus. His parents are very anti science and this is what they have taught him about Galileo. No wonder these people also don‘t like history.

GingerAntics #stephengreenblatt #theswerve #billnye #undeniable #evolution #Galileo #science #history #ultraconservative 6y

GingerAntics @julesG @Weaponxgirl yes, Americans are just this crazy. 6y

julesG Narrow minded fools. 6y

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GingerAntics @julesG Yup! I feel bad for the kid. He had no clue about reality, and now he‘s grown up, raising his own children the exact same way. Can you imagine? 6y

julesG Unfortunately, I can imagine. If they have the mind of medieval people, why don't they live like people in the middle ages? 6y

GingerAntics @julesG 🤦🏼‍♀️ 6y

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern | Stephen Greenblatt

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I didn‘t think I was going to like this one as much as I liked The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, but I was completely wrong. This is a completely different book, with a completely different feel to Adam and Eve, but it is equally as wonderful and amazing. I inhaled it in two days.
(Full review in comments)
#stephengreenblatt #theswerve

GingerAntics A great text on the return of Latin and Greek texts and the birth of the study of the humanities. It gave a clear look at what humanism originally was, and how it shaped the modern Western World. I loved the part about gothic script and this period being the one that brought us the far more legible humanist script. I googled it and found that it is remarkably close to the times font still available on computers around the world today. 6y

GingerAntics There was an interesting, full chapter, look at the sado-masochism of the early Christian church, leading me to wonder who signed on for that madness without some kind of fetish. That gave me an interesting look, and whole new insight, into the world I grew up in, even though that was in no way the intent of this book. 6y

GingerAntics This book has so many fun little tidbits about the period and its importance to our everyday lives. The best part was that Greenblatt gave us a hero. The entire book follows the heroic adventures of Poggio Bracciolini to rescue forgotten and nearly lost classical works for his humanist friends from the clutches of the suppressive monks who were the gate keepers of the only libraries at the time. 6y

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GingerAntics We have a hero. We have a foe. We have triumph. We have history. What more can you ask for? 6y

Weaponxgirl Stacked! 6y

GingerAntics @Weaponxgirl I enjoyed it, but it has less than stellar reviews on good reads, but honestly the description they gave for the book I actually gave to their review, so there is that. 6y

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern | Stephen Greenblatt

This is probably why writers are also readers...and always have been.
#theswerve #stephengreenblatt #readers #writers #thinkers

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern | Stephen Greenblatt

It‘s amazing how truth stays true, no matter how old it is.
#theswerve #stephengreenblatt #humanhistory

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern | Stephen Greenblatt

2,100 years after it was written, it is still profound true - possibly even more so.
#theswerve #stephengreenblatt #humanhistory

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern | Stephen Greenblatt

You can thank the humanists you can read your book (and this post). Prior to humanism‘s focus on the humanities and reading classical literature, writing looked like the first picture. Good luck reading that (yes, that‘s actually words). Humanist script actually looks shocking like like Times font that is still on your computer today.
#humanism #stephengreenblatt #theswerve

GingerAntics The top text reads (I promise it does): “mimi numinum niuium minimi munium nimium uini muniminum imminui uiui minimum uolunt” (translation: The snow gods‘ smallest mimes do not wish in anyway in their lives for the great duty of the defences of wine to be diminished.) You‘re grateful to the humanists now, aren‘t you? You‘re welcome. 6y

wanderinglynn The top looks like one of my calligraphy practice sheets! 😂 6y

GingerAntics @wanderinglynn right? I know it‘s one of the forms of calligraphy in the book I had about the different types of calligraphy and how to get started in each. The Gothic style. Man that‘s hard to read. These guys were clearly geniuses to be able to look at that and then output something completely different on the page next to it. 6y

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batsy That is amazing. Just trying to get into the headspace of interpreting those lines as words kind of blows my mind. 6y

GingerAntics @batsy right? I‘ve found if I have an idea of the letters involved (I know there are a bunch of Ms and Ns in those lines) and I stare at it for a while, the letters start to differentiate themselves a little bit. I can‘t imagine trying to read a book that way, though. No wonder literacy was so low. 😳 6y

batsy Yes! I'm trying to imagine all the time it must have taken to write and read when there were, like, two million things to do daily. Literacy as a class and gender issue too, no doubt. 6y

GingerAntics @batsy oh that was definitely part of the issue. I‘m sure it had just as much to do with rich men had more free time, as it did that people felt there was no point in educating women and poor people. 6y

quietlycuriouskate I can see "minimum volunt" at the end but the rest just looks like "mmmm". 6y

GingerAntics @kathedron right? That was the first bit I saw. I will admit to staring at that one passage (and counting the number of vertical lines per “word”) for quite a while. 6y

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