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■ #5825. B&C の第61節 "Effects of Christianity on English Civilization" (3) --- 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]

　B&C の第61節を helwa 伊香保温泉オフ会にてヘルメイト8名で超精読した様子をお伝えするシリーズの第3弾（最終回）です．今朝の Voicy heldio で「#1409. 英語史の古典的名著 Baugh and Cable を読む (61-3) Effects of Christianity on English Civilization」を配信しました．お付き合いいだける方は，ぜひコメントを寄せていただき，一緒によりよい読みを作り上げていきましょう．なお，第1弾と第2弾については，以下を参照ください．

　【第1弾】「#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」 ([2025-03-31-1])
　【第2弾】「#5822. B&C の第61節 "Effects of Christianity on English Civilization" (2) --- 超精読会を伊香保温泉よりお届け」 ([2025-04-05-1])

　今回第3弾では第61節の後半部分を精読しました．30分かけてたっぷり議論しています．

His most famous pupil was the Venerable Bede, a monk at Jarrow. Bede assimilated all the learning of his time. He wrote on grammar and prosody, science and chronology, and composed numerous commentaries on the books of the Old and New Testament. His most famous work is the Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731), from which we have already had occasion to quote / more than once and from which we derive a large part of our knowledge of the early history of England. Bede's spiritual grandchild was Alcuin, of York, whose fame as a scholar was so great that in 782 Charlemagne called him to be the head of his Palace School. In the eighth century, England held the intellectual leadership of Europe, and it owed this leadership to the church. In like manner, vernacular literature and the arts received a new impetus. Workers in stone and glass were brought from the continent for the improvement of church building. Rich embroidery, the illumination of manuscripts, and church music occupied others. Moreover, the monasteries cultivated their land by improved methods of agriculture and made numerous contributions to domestic economy. In short, the church as the carrier of Roman civilization influenced the course of English life in many directions, and, as is to be expected, numerous traces of this influence are to be seen in the vocabulary of Old English.

　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．今後もゆっくりペースですが，続けていきます．ぜひ本書を入手し，超精読にお付き合いいただければ．

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

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