Ma'am, I knew, and I thoroughly enjoyed your tweets about early African literature from a little while ago. I was one of your followers. But instead you have behaved in a terrible way here. If I'm wrong for citing the BL (weird thing to take issue with, bring it up with them)https://twitter.com/WendyLBelcher/status/1180563777122684929 …
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I wonder, do you attack everyone who cites a source you disagree with? How does that play, professionally? Or is it just PhD students and ECRs you think you can get away with doing this.
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Also, the originally tweet is from a man who also studies African lit, it seems. I was simply elucidating on what I believed what his source was for someone citing an auction page.
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Seems to me that whoever was writing the descriptions for the Ethiopian MSS knows Ge'ez as well. I care about African literature. It's not my field, but I care about it. I am also a medievalist, and I care about demonstrating global links between peoples.
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So the sheer anger at suggesting that an Ethiopian MS translated a text from a man who was born and lived in Syria, Constantinople, etc. is very strange to me.
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Suggesting that an Ethiopian writer/compiler/scribe was aware of texts outside of Ethiopia and translated them I don't think is a horrible thing to consider.
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This is what the global middle ages is about. The movement of texts, ideas, people.
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