History as she used to be done

[the_lady_lily]

Women have their uses for historians. They offer relief from warfare, legislation, and the history of ideas; and they enrich the central theme of social history, if and when enough evidence is available.

Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, page 168.

Comments

[med_cat]

Marvelous! This is going into my quotations collection :)

Thank you!
Cat

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

"I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all—it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention."

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey.

[yvesilena.livejournal.com]

dude!

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

Bwaaah!

Especially entertaining if by Augustan Aristocracy we're talking Livia, because, ERM. ;-)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if this makes me want to laugh or cry.

Have you spoken to cantabulous about the HM project, btw? I'm not sure how far he got with his bio, but I remember him finding a couple of tasty manuscripts in the UL - I assume you've swapped notes, but if not, might be worth getting in touch :)

[biascut.livejournal.com]

I can't believe he didn't mention our pretty hair.

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

I have not! He seem rather to have fallen off the radar in general lately. We spoke about his UL explorations a couple of years ago, but I don't have anything more recent than that.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

What do you mean, "used to be"?

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

Ah, but he is a bio-chemist, not an historian.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree, I was just observing that this attitude has hardly disappeared from academia...