Upcoming events
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Fri06Nov20203:30 pmMS-Teams
Fokelien Kootstra: I used to think your administration was better and more successful"; Case marking and scribal practice in the early Arabic documentary papyri (7th-9th century AD) (via MS-Teams)
Show contentFokelien Kootstra (UGent): "I used to think your administration was better and more successful"; Case marking and scribal practice in the early Arabic documentary papyri (7th-9th century AD)".
Abstract: here
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Past events
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Thu10Dec2015Blandijnberg 2
Shakespeare Forger and Cretan Liar : Puzzling over William Henry Ireland
Show contentJack Lynch (Rutgers University): Shakespeare Forger and Cretan Liar : Puzzling over William Henry Ireland
I discuss the challenges of using bibliographical evidence to tell the truth about someone who was almost always lying. Most of our evidence about the life of William Henry Ireland is books and manuscripts that have passed through his hands -- but he was such a compulsive and pathological liar that anything he said must be doubted and anything he touched is suspect. The result is a strange version of the Cretan Liar's Paradox, in which we're forced to glean the truth from documents that refuse to give it.