14-09-2017, 07:37 PM
"Gibbs, who works as a television researcher, had a theory that the book is a largely plagiarized tract on women’s health. "
I always cringe at the use of the word "plagiarized" in a medieval context. Plagiarism didn't exist because authors didn't exist, only author-ities. In fact, if you wanted to write something original, you'd often have to resort to the opposite of plagiarizing: writing your own work under a known author's name.
Now of course, the word plagiarism applies to Gibbs' theory in quite another way.
I always cringe at the use of the word "plagiarized" in a medieval context. Plagiarism didn't exist because authors didn't exist, only author-ities. In fact, if you wanted to write something original, you'd often have to resort to the opposite of plagiarizing: writing your own work under a known author's name.
Now of course, the word plagiarism applies to Gibbs' theory in quite another way.


![[+]](https://www.voynich.ninja/images/collapse_collapsed.png)