An update on the curious case of mendicant friars and the moral dangers of collecting cheese (see this previous post): here is a story that appears in Geschichte der öffentlichen Sittlichkeit in Deutschland (History of public morality in Germany): http://</a Basically, a friar goes round the farms begging for cheese and eggs, and at one house… Continue reading Monks + cheese
Month: October 2017
DeepL: whoa!
Linguee, which is a very useful online resource for translators, has come up with a new machine translation program and wow, it’s pretty good. For years Linguee has been collecting translated material online, which allows it to function as a dictionary with endless samples. When you enter a word or phrase you see its dictionary… Continue reading DeepL: whoa!
Reformation Flame War
In honor of the 500th anniversary of Luther’s 95 Theses, here is my heavily redacted version of a Reformation-era dialogue by Hans Sachs, namely A dialogue on the hypocrisy of the religious and their vows, through which, despising the blood of Christ, they presume to become holy. in which Hans the cobbler and Peter the… Continue reading Reformation Flame War