3.219 patristic texts; Peter the Wild Boy (56)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Thu, 6 Jul 89 19:51:22 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 219. Thursday, 6 Jul 1989.
(1) Date: Thursday, 6 July 1989 1053-EST (25 lines)
From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject: Patristic Texts
(2) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1989 11:43 EST (10 lines)
From: David H. Hesla <ILADHH@EMUVM1>
Subject: Peter the Wild Boy
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Date: Thursday, 6 July 1989 1053-EST
From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject: Patristic Texts
In reply to John Hughes' inquiry about Greek and Latin
patristic texts on computer,
(1) Most of the Greek materials (through the 5th century)
are on the TLG CD-ROM already, and virtually all of them
will be in the completed TLG bank (I have prepared a
chronological list of the Jewish and Christian texts on
the TLG disk, for anyone who cares to have it);
(2) Various Latin Christian materials have been encoded
by various projects, some of which make the materials
available, others of which do not. See the archive list
prepared by Mike Neuman at Georgetown, for example,
with reference to projects at Montreal, Louvain-le-Neuve
(CETEDOC), Liege (LASLA), etc. Also be aware of the
reactivated Rutgers Inventory of Machine Readable Texts
being coordinated by Marianne Gaunt.
I will be happy to try to provide further details, if
needed, but thought a general HUMAINST announcement might
be useful at this point.
Bob Kraft (CCAT)
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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1989 11:43 EST
From: David H. Hesla <ILADHH@EMUVM1>
Subject: Peter the Wild Boy
Peter the Wild Boy (d. 1785) was found living in the woods near Hanover. He wa
s transported to England and made much of. J. Swift satirized the craze. For
further information see the *Encyclopaedia Britannica*, 13th ed., v. 21, p. 295
. The EB cites Henry Wilson, *The Book of Wonderful Character (London 1869).
David H. Hesla
Emory University