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

[Robert Mahnke]

Better than Elaine Pagels' The Gnostic Gospels? It's been a few years, but
I recall really like it.

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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