29-05-2016, 08:58 AM
OK, we're really OT here.
JKP, you are perfectly correct. This is not a team of acadamia working in close daily tandem but a discussion forum. If that discussion leads us towards a certain point in the distance, then I'm afraid the first person to reach it is the winner.
We either decide to work together in a spirit of friendly co-operation or we retire to our ivory spires to work in isolation. Up to you. Just please attribute ideas and theories where-ever possible.
Also, I'd say the Northern Italy / Germanic argument is 6 of one and half a dozen of the other - depends if you are talking geographically or politically for the period. Still, I'd point out that the Lombard League created the late Middle Ages / Renaissance political tradition of city-states in Italy and certainly turned the intellectual and trading focus away from the HRE towards the Peninsula. And, with Petrach having kicked off new ways of interpreting the world a few years before in Florence, who knows what new ideas could have inspired a person living nearby, who chose to interpret this new world through his traditional lens?
Back to the Vermont 'Tuscany Herbal' - I believe we were discussing similarities between certain herbs here and the VM, if anyone has any further input on this.
JKP, you are perfectly correct. This is not a team of acadamia working in close daily tandem but a discussion forum. If that discussion leads us towards a certain point in the distance, then I'm afraid the first person to reach it is the winner.
We either decide to work together in a spirit of friendly co-operation or we retire to our ivory spires to work in isolation. Up to you. Just please attribute ideas and theories where-ever possible.
Also, I'd say the Northern Italy / Germanic argument is 6 of one and half a dozen of the other - depends if you are talking geographically or politically for the period. Still, I'd point out that the Lombard League created the late Middle Ages / Renaissance political tradition of city-states in Italy and certainly turned the intellectual and trading focus away from the HRE towards the Peninsula. And, with Petrach having kicked off new ways of interpreting the world a few years before in Florence, who knows what new ideas could have inspired a person living nearby, who chose to interpret this new world through his traditional lens?
Back to the Vermont 'Tuscany Herbal' - I believe we were discussing similarities between certain herbs here and the VM, if anyone has any further input on this.