Reviews for Wax Tablets of the Mind

The average rating for Wax Tablets of the Mind based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-06-02 00:00:00 Chrystal Thurman This is an excellent but dense book. The central premise is important for understanding how the ability to communicate information and store it has changed. But for me, it was almost a 'gimmick' book because her footnotes were so thorough and her proof relied on retranslating so many ancient Latin and Greek texts. I took it as a challenge!! So I tracked down every assertion in the original works. I enjoyed tracking down all the quotes in Latin. Unfortunately, although I can still parse out the individual words, the grammar and syntax elude me now, so I foudn out can't read Greek anymore. That made it much more of a slog. Even so, it was fun to read Cicero again -- and with a wholly different point of view.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-08-27 00:00:00 Anthony Degregorio Jr Chivalry not as the brutality of the past or the courtly refinement of the romance but as the tension between the individual prowess/war power of the horsed elite versus the need for public order. As explored through the chanson de geste, the romance of the round table, and contemporary chronicles.