7.0043 Rs: E-resources; access; e-texts; church doors (4/60)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 7 Jun 1993 21:15:17 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0043. Monday, 7 Jun 1993.
(1) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 08:23 EST (11 lines)
From: MORGAN@LOYVAX.BITNET
Subject: Re: 7.0037 Qs: S/W; H/W; NetNews; Church Doors; Goodies
(2) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 08:39:07 CST (16 lines)
From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Internet Access
(3) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 08:53:38 CST (15 lines)
From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Church-door postings
(4) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 09:13:58 CST (18 lines)
From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: e-texts
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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 08:23 EST
From: MORGAN@LOYVAX.BITNET
Subject: Re: 7.0037 Qs: S/W; H/W; NetNews; Church Doors; Goodies (6/124)
RE Computing for computing: if anyone is interested in Dante, have them
call up Dartmouth and do some searches on the text and commentators!
It's well organized and a substantial amount of material to search.
Leslie Morgan
Morgan@loyvax.bitnet Morgan@loyola.edu
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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 08:39:07 CST
From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Internet Access
Most books on the internet will have a section on access; cf. Ed Krol, The
Whole Internet (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 1992), Appendix A. J. Martin's
There's Gold in them thar Networks! is available by anonymous ftp as RFC
1402. Jean Armour Polly's Surfing the Internet (anonymous ftp-able) has a
nice section by Daniel Dern, and Maasinfo (also ftp-able) is a veritable
goldmine of information. Of course, the granddaddy list of them all is
available from the info-server@nnsc.nsf.net. Ask for referral-list. Of
course, this is the best source of general information about the net, just
send message help. Freenets are springing up all over the place; we even
have one here in Chambana. Ask for a list. The simplest thing to do is to
get Ed Krol's book.
Jim Marchand.
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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 08:53:38 CST
From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Church-door postings
The most famous posting on the church-door was that of Luther, which has
been under question for a long time. It might be well to read, e.g. The
Theses Were Not Posted, by Erwin Iserloh (Boston: Beacon Press, 1968), which
also contains a survey of the controversy. I don't think the church door in
the Middle Ages posted much more than bans, church announcements and the
like, since this was not a literate culture. The German Litfasssaeule might
be a better analogy. Contrary to the common etymology, this is not named
because it is a column which holds literature, it comes from a person's
name: F. Tietz, Ernst Litfass's industrielle und private Wirksamkeit
(Berlin, 1871; repr. Berlin, 1921).
Jim Marchand.
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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 09:13:58 CST
From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: e-texts
You don't have to restrict yourself to Shakespeare and the Bible; there are
all kinds of e-texts out there: Project Gutenberg, Online Book Initiative,
European Corpus Initiative, Usenet groups. You can download Old Swedish
texts, Grimm's Fairy Tales (complete, in translation), all of Hans Christian
Andersen, Latin texts, Genji Monogotari (Japanese and Seidensticker's
translation), any number of historical documents, pictures from the Vietnam
War, the Vatican exhibit, pictures from the Book of Kells, etc. You can
obtain from HUMANIST the Oxford Text Archive list (some restricted use);
there is the Rutgers list. It is well to get the various net guides, such
as Suranet, Nysernet, Cicnet, Nordunet. Stuff is coming online all the
time. There are also some dictionaries, a great deal of software, the
Eurodicautom online dictionaries from ECHO, and I haven't begun yet. Your
students need to get with it; there are unexplored worlds out there.
Jim Marchand.