Richard Carruthers
2017-12-04 02:39:07 UTC
While the list technically covers all aspects of mediaeval genealogy,
one sees that it has its areas of concentration. Lots of
Anglospherical (I use the term too loosely, and even semi-jocularly,
no doubt) genealogy, not so much of the rest.
The genealogical history of the rest of humanity is certainly worthy
of study for its own sake and not just when its intersects with the
Anglosphere.
Surely there are lots of scholars in Japan, Austria, Hungary, Russia,
Iran, Ethiopia, India, Israel, Indonesia, Samoa (to name a few), who
have invested and continue to invest a lot of time in these topics.
They also have colleagues in the Anglosphere interested in aspects of
Japanese, Austrian, Hungarian, etc., mediaeval genealogy. Even I have
heard of a few of them, and have used their works here and there,
where I have had the good fortune to come across them and to be able
to obtain them via hook by crook.
The descendant populations to whom many of these relate most directly
are probably mostly still outside the Anglosphere (I mean in their own
language communities and countries). (Not that one has to be a
descendant to find a given topic worthy of study, of course.)
No doubt they have lively discussions and exchanges of information
over the internet and via other means. Some of them doubtless interact
with scholars and other interested parties in the Anglosphere. Some
are probably even "here" in the 'sphere.
That said, perhaps they actively choose to make use of even more
specialised fora than this one. Doubtless this is to our general loss,
but I for one cannot see how it can really be remedied without some
more of their willing and active participation, and meaningful and
useful responses for their efforts.
Is it really sufficient to post the odd tidbit or topic that does not
relate to Ireland and the British Isles and their diaspora? On the
other hand, how does one encourage a wider reflexion here of the whole
topic of mediaeval genealogy?
Richard "Nothing Human is Alien To Me (well, enough of that, ed.!)"
Carruthers-Zurowski
syn Jozef syn Jan syn Ferdynand syn Janek syn Ludwik syn Antoni z
Lestowitza in West Gallizien (per German language R.C. m. banns,
Czernowitz/Cernauti/Chernivsti/ Chernovtsy, 1798)
one sees that it has its areas of concentration. Lots of
Anglospherical (I use the term too loosely, and even semi-jocularly,
no doubt) genealogy, not so much of the rest.
The genealogical history of the rest of humanity is certainly worthy
of study for its own sake and not just when its intersects with the
Anglosphere.
Surely there are lots of scholars in Japan, Austria, Hungary, Russia,
Iran, Ethiopia, India, Israel, Indonesia, Samoa (to name a few), who
have invested and continue to invest a lot of time in these topics.
They also have colleagues in the Anglosphere interested in aspects of
Japanese, Austrian, Hungarian, etc., mediaeval genealogy. Even I have
heard of a few of them, and have used their works here and there,
where I have had the good fortune to come across them and to be able
to obtain them via hook by crook.
The descendant populations to whom many of these relate most directly
are probably mostly still outside the Anglosphere (I mean in their own
language communities and countries). (Not that one has to be a
descendant to find a given topic worthy of study, of course.)
No doubt they have lively discussions and exchanges of information
over the internet and via other means. Some of them doubtless interact
with scholars and other interested parties in the Anglosphere. Some
are probably even "here" in the 'sphere.
That said, perhaps they actively choose to make use of even more
specialised fora than this one. Doubtless this is to our general loss,
but I for one cannot see how it can really be remedied without some
more of their willing and active participation, and meaningful and
useful responses for their efforts.
Is it really sufficient to post the odd tidbit or topic that does not
relate to Ireland and the British Isles and their diaspora? On the
other hand, how does one encourage a wider reflexion here of the whole
topic of mediaeval genealogy?
Richard "Nothing Human is Alien To Me (well, enough of that, ed.!)"
Carruthers-Zurowski
syn Jozef syn Jan syn Ferdynand syn Janek syn Ludwik syn Antoni z
Lestowitza in West Gallizien (per German language R.C. m. banns,
Czernowitz/Cernauti/Chernivsti/ Chernovtsy, 1798)