The Wandering Scholars: The Life and Art of the Lyric Poets of the Latin Middle Ages.

[Mark Thibodeau]

I'm reading Tobias Churton's GNOSTIC PHILOSOPHY right now (was it
recommended here? I think it was!) and WOW is it every illuminating.

It's a historical survey of gnosticism/Gnosticism/Ghostics/gnosis from
pre-Persian to modern day pop music and it's blowing my goddamn mind.

I'm about half way through, so even tho there's a "lit" section near the
end, I don't know if our man Pynchon is mentioned (altho I'm suspecting he
will be). I'll let you guys know, either way.

In the meantime, if any of you ever thought of taking a deeper dive into
learning about the historical movement and/or phenomenon of gnosis... I can
thing of no better guide for such a journey. This is the equivalent of a
top level undergraduate course in 400 information-and-insight-packed pages.

https://books.google.ca/books/about/Gnostic_Philosophy.html?id=iFHCQgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

Cheers!
Jerky

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> a book TRP has mentioned favorably as somehow influential.
>
> Well, I picked up a copy of the 1961 Anchor edition, the sixth edition it
> is always saying, the one TRP would most likely have bought since
> Doubleday did
> fine distribution in those days for Anchor---
> "less imperfect than its predecessors"..."[but] just the scaffolding
> of its subject." has a titled introduction which title therefore subject
> surprised me.
>
> THE PAGAN LEARNING.
>
> "....and take to the roads and the taverns, tasting and celebrating the
> pleasures of the senses."
> [while Christianity reigned]...Back cover copy.
>
> @ 300 pages, 30+ in Latin and another 30 of endnotes and bibliography.
>
>
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