Random Number Lit

  I want to start this blog post by saying that I had not idea what to make of this document when I drew this name at random from the Small Works List. These names come to me completely stripped of context and I have to do some work to reassert them back into an original context. With this book, I did the most outside research to get a sense of just what I should read from this person, but then also who this person was, where and when was this book written, and what would have been thought about it at the time. I talked with several other professors about this book, one professor said that she would read this book with me which will be recorded later hopefully for a bonus video. I settled on David Frey's translation instead of Roland Williams as the Frey translation felt more user friendly to me though I ordered both from I-Share. “There he had spoken by signs. A report had been sent to Wayna Capac Inca in Cusco, saying that the first men had gone ashore, that they wore very long

  JACOBUS VORAGINE - Golden Legend From the Big Book List, I drew Jacobus Voragine’s Golden Legend which is the 13th century French collection of the hagiography of the early church. I have to be transparent here and say that I have study Christian theology in a mainline Protestant seminary, and I was wholly unaware of much of the work in this text. Hagiography – noun – the writing of the lives of saints. Here is what is weird about the word hagiography. It seems in modern parlance it means something that is obviously false and fantastic but sort of benign and whimsical in a way that is nonthreatening. I could be wrong here, but my first experience with hagiography was in my undergraduate days when I came across the story of the life of Brandon which is a magical tale of the first Europeans to make landfall on the North American continent. Brandon’s life is not recorded here in the Golden Legend version from Penguin I read for reasons I don’t understand. It is not in the e