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oodlenoodleroodle · 5 months ago

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I'm reading part 3 of "The Juggler of Notre-Dame and Medievalizing Modernity" (part 3 out of 6), but the book talks a lot about Henry Adams's "Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartes" which I have also already downloaded as a PDF.

So now I'm wondering if I should read the Adams book after finishing part 3, since I will remember why I wanted to read it in the first place, or should I go ahead and read parts 4, 5, and 6 of The Juggler, and then come back to Adams.

#i mean part 2 talked a lot about books by gaston paris and anatole france and i didnt stop to read those #but then again i wasnt particularly interested in them based on part 2.#but part 3 is really selling the adams. it sounds like the kind of weird genre-bending thing i might enjoy #plus hes like harpo era people. paris and france (it should be illegal for those words to be lastnames) were older #and like i said earlier im just not into the 1800s.#and i didn't read anything referenced in part 1 because i dont read old french (nor any french) and it sounded like the translations are...#variable in quality.#looking it up it seems that henry adams is actually one generation ahead of harpos people. but still. they would have read it.#like theres no way woollcott didnt read mont saint michel and chartres.

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