The students and I will explore the purpose of community college education and also study the institutions themselves and how they serve (or not) different populations.

It will be fire🔥

Even though there is a more respected translation, it's not open access.

One thing I think I will do is compare significant sections of Montague Summers' translation with the other translation by Christopher Mackay

I wonder if others have other suggestions

...With a paucity of notes, a tendentious historical introduction, and questionable translation choices at almost every turn, Summers's Malleus has long been excoriated by scholars, but no one (in the Anglophone world) stepped forward to produce anything better."

dr.lib.iastate.edu/handle/20.50...

It's clear that there are flaws in the translation, and I've seen historians slamming it.

Here's a quote from a historian reviewing a new translation of the MM:

"Malleus maleficarum is perhaps the most famous text in the history of European witchcraft....

I'm going to go try to lure some more people away from the bad place :)

😱😨😭

I am also excited to dig into some contemporary scholars' interpretations of this very... uh unusual text....

I am reading it because it tells us a lot about how these 15th century clergy members thought about the mind and its afflictions

Witches were capable of affecting people's minds in a variety of ways, including perhaps to no one's surprise causing married men to fall in love with them

I live in the Washington DC metro area with my wife (who is cohost to the neurodissent podcast), my dog, and my cat :)

The past several years have seen a radical shift in my life.

A few years back, I had a mental health crisis that resulted in, among other things, my decision to quit my job as a professor @ an elite uni.

Now I'm trying to find peace of mind, living under capitalism. I'm having minimal success.

I'm also a teacher. I teach writing at a community college.

Often my scholarship is aimed at this audience, my students, in particular.

I consider myself a public scholar. I write and speak to general audiences, using open access sources. I hope to make my scholarship as accessible as possible, with the understanding that "access" is a multifaceted and sometimes fraught process.

Agreed. I really dislike what's been done to the algorithm over the past few (several?) years. I miss what that site used to be like.... Oh no is this what mil;ennial nostalgia looks like?