Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 08:30:05 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: agon not appetite
Humanists will be amused as well as interested to learn that a piece of
humanities computing research has hit the daily news, at least in the U.K.
Thanks to his textual collation software, Peter Robinson and colleagues are
now able convincingly to argue that Chaucer's Wife of Bath "was really a
woman struggling to keep her appetites within the confines of Christian
marriage" rather than, as previously thought, a "coarse [woman], with an
indiscriminate sexual appetite". For the hot news, see the Daily Telegraph,
27 August 1998, online at <http://www.telegraph.co.uk> (where you register,
then search for "Wife of Bath"); and on the BBC News site,
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_159000/159352.stm>.
Yours,
WM
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Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London
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maui gratia
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