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HyperEssays is a project to create a modern and accessible online edition of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne https://hyperessays.net/
HyperEssays has had full-text search of John Florio’s and my own ongoing translation of the Essays (w/ Cotton/Hazlitt’s as a placeholder) for a while. Today I’m happy to announce that the original Middle French text is also searchable on the site. 🥳 hyperessays.net
HyperEssays
HyperEssays is a project to create a modern and accessible online edition of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne.
hyperessays.net
Happy birthday to our pal, Michel de Montaigne, born 493 years ago today! 🎉
People talk about "On Solitude," "On Cannibals," "On the Power of the Imagination," et al.., but to really grasp Montaigne you need to go to the deep cuts. Like "On Thumbs," which is kind of like a Notes files about references to thumbs in history and art
On Thumbs - The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
On Thumbs. Chapter 26 of Book 2 of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne translated by Charles Cotton
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hyperessays.net was offline briefly this morning (US EST) but it’s up and running again now. 😮💨 Back to reading, translating, annotating, coding, transcribing, copyediting, learning, and just having fun with the Essays.
HyperEssays
HyperEssays is a project to create a modern and accessible online edition of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne.
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LLMs making stuff up, Montaigne edition: chatgpt.com/share/687bc2...
ChatGPT - Quote Attribution Inquiry
Shared via ChatGPT
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“I was born between eleven and noon on the last day of February 1533 (as we reckon nowadays, with the year starting in January).“ “Je nasquis entre unze heures et midy le dernier jour de Febvrier, 1533. comme nous contons à cette heure, commençant l’an en Janvier.” hyperessays.net/essays/to-ph...
To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die - The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Death is nothing to worry about!
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Happy birthday to us! 🎉🎂 HyperEssays turns 5 today. Still working on it. Still making progress. hyperessays.net
HyperEssays
HyperEssays is a project to create a modern and accessible online edition of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne.
hyperessays.net
Happy birthday to us! 🎉🎂 HyperEssays turns 5 today. Still working on it. Still making progress. hyperessays.net
HyperEssays
HyperEssays is a project to create a modern and accessible online edition of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne.
hyperessays.net
New job: Assistant Professor of Early Modern European History University of California - Los Angeles https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67827
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It’s mid-December and I know what you’re thinking: Time for another end-of-year recap. So here’s one you didn’t know you needed: HyperEssays 2023 Wrapped!
![A Year of Words. In 2023, HyperEssays added 48131 lemmas to its 11 lexicons. These are used to populate 1479628 indexable TEI W elements across 434 chapter files. [The slide shows examples of JSON-encoded lexicon entries showing lemma, normalized form, and original printed form of two words.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5w64pt3g5allwiv2c33sib35/bafkreigxvor2g4yw2ivvz64p6devqgcbf62anpgpxwvnzmymkw3fbgdkmy)
Happy World Philosophy Day, everyone! www.unesco.org/en/days/phil...
World Philosophy Day
16 November
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Yesterday something quite remarkable happened: The Florentine Codex, an Encyclopedia of Aztec culture in 12 volumes finished in 1569, was posted in a digital version with beautiful images and translation. Everyone with an interest in history should check it out. florentinecodex.getty.edu
Digital Florentine Codex
The Getty Research Institute provides global access to the Florentine Codex, considered the most important manuscript of early colonial Mexico
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Phillip John Usher’s latest installment of “Conversations with People who Read Montaigne,” in French, is on YouTube: youtu.be/10QCtkOL8pI?... Frank Lestringant talks about ”Des Coches” and Montaigne’s place in 16th cent. discussions of the colonization of the “New World.”
Conversations with People who Read Montaigne, Episode 4: Frank Lestringant and Phillip John Usher
« Conversations with People who Read Montaigne », a series hosted by Phillip John Usher (NYU). For more details on the series, including future dates, past r...
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Phillip John Usher’s next guest on “Conversations with People Who Read Montaigne” will be Cathy Yandell (French/Francophone Studies, Carleton College) on Monday, Oct. 30. Registration info: as.nyu.edu/research-cen... (The URL says “--frank-lestringant” but is for Yandell’s talk.)
Conversations with People who read Montaigne: Cathy Yandell
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Phillip John Usher’s next guest on “Conversations with People Who Read Montaigne” will be Cathy Yandell (French/Francophone Studies, Carleton College) on Monday, Oct. 30. Registration info: as.nyu.edu/research-cen... (The URL says “--frank-lestringant” but is for Yandell’s talk.)
Conversations with People who read Montaigne: Cathy Yandell
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Pushkin Press just released a new collection of 16 “essential essays” by Michel de Montaigne, newly translated into English by David Coward.
Phillip John Usher’s series of “Conversations with People Who Read Montaigne,” is soon to resume with its next guest, Frank Lestringant, on Sept. 25th at 1:00 PM (EST). 📅 For more information (and registration, when the time comes?) visit wp.nyu.edu/artsampscien...
Conversations With People Who Read Montaigne (www.montaigne.us) – Conversations With People Who Re...
Conversations With People Who Read Montaigne
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People familiar with Early Modern English, what word is “bedrowle” in John Florio’s translation of Montaigne’s III.8 “Of the Arte of conferring”? “[He] doth nothing but molest al men with the impertinent bedrowle and register of his pedigrees….” hyperessays.net/florio/book/...
Of the Arte of conferring - The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Chapter 8 of Book 3 of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne translated by John Florio
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Phillip John Usher’s series of “Conversations with People Who Read Montaigne,” is soon to resume with its next guest, Frank Lestringant, on Sept. 25th at 1:00 PM (EST). 📅 For more information (and registration, when the time comes?) visit wp.nyu.edu/artsampscien...
Conversations With People Who Read Montaigne (www.montaigne.us) – Conversations With People Who Re...
Conversations With People Who Read Montaigne
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A three-year investigation into the contents of a coffin thought to be the remains of Michel de Montaigne just ended. Its conclusion? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.lefigaro.fr/culture/le-c... (in French)
Le corps de Montaigne n’est peut-être pas celui de Montaigne
Au terme de trois années d’investigation sur la dépouille des réserves du Musée d'Aquitaine, les analyses ne permettent pas d’être formel.
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Jessie Jackson on Sesame Street in 1971 doing a call-and-response with the kids of the poem I Am - Somebody. [kottke.org]
“What could be better for any author than for his lifework to become a reader’s lifework, too?” Li, Yiyun. “Some Have Yoga. I Have Montaigne.” @theatlantic.bsky.social, September 4, 2023. www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv....
Some Have Yoga. I Have Montaigne.
The philosopher will always be among the writers I reread; his words provide one of the best anchors for one’s ever-changing mind.
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Marie de Gournay fans, check out this new *Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy* edited by Karen Detlefsen and Lisa Shapiro: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy
The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy is an outstanding reference source for the wide range of philosophical contributions made by women writing in Europe from about 156...
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Feels apt that as I move to a new platform for writing that the most recent piece I published is on (hand)writing and media history. This was a challenging review essay to write, but I really appreciated the chance to do so. https://www.publicbooks.org/slanting-the-history-of-handwriting/
Slanting the History of Handwriting
Whatever writing is today, it is not self-evident.
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Hello Bluesky! Our first post will be a short introduction. HyperEssays is a project to create a modern and accessible online version of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne.
