And now I can't shake the thought that, given this was the 14th Century, and he was a university man, this was either a by-name given by his classmates because he honked like a goose when he laughed, or there was some incident at a St Martin's day dinner which he never lived down!

I'm so glad this is open access. I gave my Hildegard lecture yesterday and students are already asking for more reading materials :)

I love that film!

You can take the altarboy out of the catholic church, but you can never take the catholic guilt out of the altarboy!

And yes, I did manage to sneak a passing Doctor Who reference into my first monograph ;)

Time does get quite wibbly wobbly (and timey wimey!) I sometimes find myself getting far too invested in the persona of a given chronicler before remembering that I'm supposed to be reading critically!

It's early 5th century! Your student is correct.
420 BC would be late 5th.

If anyone is wondering, this is the Kosmas 900 exhibit at NKČR Prague. They asked us not to photograph the manuscripts, most of which are on loan.

As a fellow autistic, I can only say: SHOW ME THE PEER REVIEWED STUDIES!

I wonder if that has something to do with the idea behind Theriac as a universal antidote.

And yet not They Might be Giants!? O my god, what is coming to this world!?