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■ #5817. B&C の第61節 "Effects of Christianity on English Civilization" (1) --- 超精読会を伊香保温泉よりお届け [bchel][latin][greek][borrowing][christianity][link][voicy][heldio][anglo-saxon][history][helmate]

　今朝の Voicy heldio で「#1401.英語史の古典的名著 Baugh and Cable を読む (61-1) Effects of Christianity on English Civilization」を配信しました．週末に開催された helwa の高崎・伊香保温泉オフ会活動の一環として，昨朝，伊香保温泉の宿で収録した超精読会の前半部分をお届けしています．
　今回も前回に引き続き Taku さんこと金田拓さん（帝京科学大学）に司会をお願いしています．7名のヘルメイトの方々と温泉宿で超精読会を開くというのは，これ以上なく豊かな時間でした．読書会は90分の長丁場となったので，収録音源も3回ほどに分けてお届けしていこうと思います．今回は第1弾で，45分ほどの配信となりますす．
　第61節の内容は，7世紀後半から8世紀のアングロサクソンの学者列伝というべきもので，いかにキリスト教神学を筆頭とする諸学問がこの時期のイングランドに花咲き，大陸の知的活動に影響を与えるまでに至ったかが語られています．英文そのものも読み応えがあり，深い解釈を促してくれますが，何よりも同志とともに議論できるのが喜びでした．
　今朝の配信回で対象とした部分のテキスト（Baugh and Cable, p. 80) を以下に掲載しますので，ぜひ超精読にお付き合いください．

61. Effects of Christianity on English Civilization.
The introduction of Christianity meant the building of churches and the establishment of monasteries. Latin, the language of the services and of ecclesiastical learning, was once more heard in England. Schools were established in most of the monasteries and larger churches. Some of these became famous through their great teachers, and from them trained men went out to set up other schools at other centers. The beginning of this movement was in 669, when a Greek bishop, Theodore of Tarsus, was made archbishop of Canterbury. He was accompanied by Hadrian, an African by birth, a man described by Bede as "of the greatest skill in both the Greek and Latin tongues." They devoted considerable time and energy to teaching. "And because," says Bede, "they were abundantly learned in sacred and profane literature, they gathered a crowd of disciples ... and together with the books of Holy Writ, they also taught the arts of poetry, astronomy, and computation of the church calendar; a testimony of which is that there are still living at this day some of their scholars, who are as well versed in the Greek and Latin tongues as in their own, in which they were born."

　B&C読書会の過去回については「#5291. heldio の「英語史の古典的名著 Baugh and Cable を読む」シリーズが順調に進んでいます」 ([2023-10-22-1]) をご覧ください．

　・ Baugh, Albert C. and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language. 6th ed. London: Routledge, 2013.

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