[1] From: cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu (44)
Subject: Re: 12.0181 Wife of Bath: agon not appetite
[2] From: Leslie Burkholder <lburkhdl@interchg.ubc.ca> (5)
Subject: Re: 12.0181 Wife of Bath
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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:35:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: 12.0181 Wife of Bath: agon not appetite
Peter was also interviewed on National Public Radio in the U.S.
Public recognition at last!
Charles Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590
(510) 642-3781 FAX (510) 642-7589 cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu
On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 12, No. 181.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
>
> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 08:30:05 +0100
> From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>
> >
> 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
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London
> voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801
> <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/>
> maui gratia
>
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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 17:25:05 -0700
From: Leslie Burkholder <lburkhdl@interchg.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: 12.0181 Wife of Bath
This also made the front page of _The Vancouver Sun_, a Vancouver BC
newspaper last week.
Leslie Burkholder
University British Columbia
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