FMRSI Resources: The Next Steps

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The Administratrix is currently planning what to do with the RESOURCES page/section next. Herewith follows the current state of the thinking taxonomical at present. The basic categorization settled on: ARTES LIBERALES – ARTES MECHANICAE – RERUM ANTIQUARUM – MODERNITAS. The current plan is to attach a collection of free-standing posts to the page; which posts will also be categorised as “resources” and thus lookable-upable via that drop-down menu (like CFP, Employment, and so on). This will unclutter the RESOURCES page, and provide a less cumbersome and more specifically useful webography, to some extent replicating, and to some extent complementary and supplementary to the Blogroll down the right-hand side of the Forum.

So the end result will be a shorter RESOURCES page, to serve – via linked headings – as a gateway to a group of free-standing posts. I’ll also be playing around with head-words of various sorts, and many items will be cross-listed or cross-referenced on two or more posts. No categorization as to “Medieval” or “Renaissance” – only by topic.

This is all very much work in progress, and will be for some time (not least as I have a day-job too, and a book to finish, and suchlike). Although it is of course always fun to have an excuse to reread the Categories and associated commentary. In the meantime, I would be very grateful indeed for all comments and suggestions: most importantly, to check that I have covered and properly represented (one way or another) all members’ interests.

PLANNED RESOURCES POSTS AND THEIR ATTACHMENT TO THE RESOURCES PAGE

ARTES LIBERALES

1. PHILOLOGIA

TEXTS
texts/trivium: language & literature; grammatica; figurae; auctores; literary life – the reading/writing/commentating/rereading/rewriting cycle – dictionaries and other reference online

(in) ENGLISH (↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ OTHER EUROPEAN – ex. for Anglo-Norman French written in England)
IRISH (↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ LATIN)
LATIN (↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ ENGLISH, IRISH)
OTHER EUROPEAN (↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ ENGLISH ex. Anglo-Norman French written outside “France”)
OTHER (no insult intended – simply those languages and their literatures that are less well covered by scholars based in Ireland)
GENERAL ↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ : TEXTUALITY – REPOSITORIES

POETICS & literary criticism (contemporary) ↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ COMMENTARY & CONTINUATION – MUSIC – PHILOSOPHIA

Rereading, rewriting, and textual continuations:
↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ COMMENTARY & CONTINUATION – MODERNITAS

TEXTUALITY

palaeography
codicology
history of the book
↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ TEXTS – HISTORIES – ARCHAEOLOGY – REPOSITORIES

COMMENTARY & CONTINUATION

rereading, rewriting, and textual continuations:
poetics, literary criticism, and literary theory
literary history
Medievalism etc: scholarship, refashionings, collection, edition: back to the starting point of philology
↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ POETICS – MODERNITAS

2. MERCURIUS
Actio; rhetorica applied / in practice: discourse, law, polemics, propaganda, public life; materia artis & ars dictaminis

HISTORIAE
histories, human sciences, historiography:

histories cultural, intellectual, political, social, gender, religious
learning & teaching; education and scholarship
geographies, cartography, travel
other specific and/or localised subject-matter and topics not covered by the above
↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ MATERIAL HISTORY: TEXTUALITY – ARCHAEOLOGY

anthropology, sociology, ethnography
popular culture, folklore, daily life, non-written cultures
the practice of everyday life, including religious practice and spirituality (↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ PHILOSOPHIA)

historiography and meta-history, history of the field(s), histories of scholarship (↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔MODERNITAS – TEXTUALITY)

GENERAL ↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ ARCHAEOLOGY

3. QUADRIVIUM

MUSIC AND MUSICOLOGY
mathematics
natural sciences, physical sciences, astronomy and cosmology
history and philosophy of science
↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ POETICS – PHILOSOPHIA – ARTES MECHANICAE – ARCHAEOLOGY

4. PHILOSOPHIA
Dialectica, intelligentia, ingenium, cogitatio. Abstract thought, reason, reinen Vernunft, logica

philosophy
theology (↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ RELIGIOUS PRACTICE)
things theoretical, abstracted, comparative, and meta; aesthetics: ↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ POETICS – MUSIC – ARTES MECHANICAE (ex. in Renaissance for the latter).

ARTES MECHANICAE

TÉΧΝΗ: Technology, practical arts, crafts
painting, sculpture
architecture
medicine, inc. midwifery, “folk / popular medicine”
history and philosophy of science
↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ QUADRIVIUM – RERUM ANTIQUARUM – TEXTUALITY

RERUM ANTIQUARUM

Archaeology, antiquities, preservation, collection.
↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ MATERIAL HISTORY: HISTORIES – TEXTUALITY – HISTORY OF SCIENCE – REPOSITORIES

MODERNITAS

THE MODERN MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE WORLD

REPOSITORIES: museums and libraries ↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ ARCHAEOLOGY – TEXTUALITY – HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Universities, centres, M&R studies
The Profession
↔CROSS-REFERENCES↔ COMMENTARY & CONTINUATION – HISTORIAE (ESP. META-) – QUADRIVIUM (SCIENCES)  – ART. MECH. – RERUM ANTIQUARUM

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SEE ALSO: The RESOURCES page – some webography in VILLAGE GREEN posts – the BLOGROLL to your right.

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CHECK…
to have covered:

1. Categories
2. grammar – dialectic – rhetoric
   music – arithmetic – geometry – astronomy
3. artes liberales
   artes mechanicae
4. theory/practice – reason/expression – ars rhetorica vs. materia artis vs. ars dictandi

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