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highlyeccentricBecause, based on the Anglo-Saxonists I know (all two of them), this seems to be the case. And I don't mean just the standard If-You're-Not-Nice-To-Your-Students-They'll-Bugger-Off-And-Study-Postmodernist-Literature kind of nice. By now you've all gathered that Melanie is exceedingly cool, so we won't go into that again. But this semester I've discovered that Daniel Anlezark is also a most lovely and obliging sort of person to have around (good news, as he's the only person around to supervise AS honours theses).
I'm taking Dan's class on Medieval Dreams & Visions, which is fun. I'm not taking his Anglo-Saxon class, due to being in a sort of composite class with the honours students, run by Melanie. Nevertheless, when in week four I found myself utterly incapable of locating pictures of the exeter book to practice paelography on, Dan happily found me photocopies of something to keep me occupied until I could get my hands on the real thing, or (as it actually turned out) Melanie gave up and copied it herself. Not entirely surprising, given that it's his field and all, but nevertheless very nice of him.
What's more unusual is that Dan has been very helpful when it comes to the essay I'm working on for David's Medieval Cosmology course. He was quite happy for me to steal an essay question he had set for D&V, and write it for Cosmology. And he gave me a run-down on the Anglo-Saxon Boethius and sent me off with the names for the two (both vr old) editions and a few ideas in my head. As it happens, it didn't take much reading before I decided to abandon the visionary question and go hunting something about the transmission of Boethian ideas into 9th C. England. So I have to think of another question. But Dan didn't know I'd do that, and his letting me steal the question solved what had been a great stress for me all semester.
So, that's the theory for this week: being an anglo-saxonist makes you a nice person.
And it's very nice, I think, to have very nice teachers.
I'm taking Dan's class on Medieval Dreams & Visions, which is fun. I'm not taking his Anglo-Saxon class, due to being in a sort of composite class with the honours students, run by Melanie. Nevertheless, when in week four I found myself utterly incapable of locating pictures of the exeter book to practice paelography on, Dan happily found me photocopies of something to keep me occupied until I could get my hands on the real thing, or (as it actually turned out) Melanie gave up and copied it herself. Not entirely surprising, given that it's his field and all, but nevertheless very nice of him.
What's more unusual is that Dan has been very helpful when it comes to the essay I'm working on for David's Medieval Cosmology course. He was quite happy for me to steal an essay question he had set for D&V, and write it for Cosmology. And he gave me a run-down on the Anglo-Saxon Boethius and sent me off with the names for the two (both vr old) editions and a few ideas in my head. As it happens, it didn't take much reading before I decided to abandon the visionary question and go hunting something about the transmission of Boethian ideas into 9th C. England. So I have to think of another question. But Dan didn't know I'd do that, and his letting me steal the question solved what had been a great stress for me all semester.
So, that's the theory for this week: being an anglo-saxonist makes you a nice person.
And it's very nice, I think, to have very nice teachers.