{"id":32923,"date":"2022-01-21T19:59:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T19:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=32923"},"modified":"2022-01-21T19:59:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T19:59:25","slug":"from-my-diary-484","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2022\/01\/21\/from-my-diary-484\/","title":{"rendered":"From my diary"},"content":{"rendered":"

The big news is that Dr Isabella Image has today very kindly sent me a rather wonderful draft translation of an anonymous 4th century text, De solstitiis et aequinoctiis<\/em>, about which I have written before<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s never been translated before into any modern language, and it is full of interesting things.\u00a0 The author suggests that Christ and John the Baptist were conceived and born on the solstices and equinoxes, and argues this from the bible.\u00a0 The argument made is not entirely convincing to modern eyes, but it is very revealing of 4th century thinking.\u00a0 I hope to make this available online very soon.<\/p>\n

The other news is that the postman brought me a copy of a French PhD thesis which I ordered from the ANRT last weekend.\u00a0 It comes handsomely bound, in standard softback academic book format.\u00a0 It’s certainly a huge step up from the pile of letter-sized photocopies that ProQuest send out.\u00a0 Indeed it is almost worth the huge sum that I paid for it.\u00a0 It contains an unpublished translation, about which I will post further another time.\u00a0 I wish I could have had a PDF, tho.<\/p>\n

I’ve also placed my first inter-library loan for some time, for a volume of Charles W. Jones on Bede.\u00a0 This apparently contains a discussion of the manuscripts of the Irish computus forgeries.\u00a0 This was a loose end from my post a little while back about “Theophilus of Caesarea”, and I’ll post if I find something interesting.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see if ILL’s are working again.\u00a0 It will also be interesting to see what they charge me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The big news is that Dr Isabella Image has today very kindly sent me a rather wonderful draft translation of an anonymous 4th century text, De solstitiis et aequinoctiis, about which I have written before.\u00a0 It’s never been translated before into any modern language, and it is full of interesting things.\u00a0 The author suggests that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[507,553,554,662,1649],"class_list":["post-32923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-cpl2277","tag-de-solstitia","tag-de-solstitiis","tag-eusebius","tag-theophilus-of-caesarea"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}