Actually, I'd far prefer that he didn't touch them at all. Or at least limit it to turning to the pages he needs (but can't understand — he clearly said when he was fingering the Peterborough Chronicles that Old English is gibberish to him, even while someone who does speak the language had directed the cameraman to show a section of page which for those who can read OE illustrated the point he was making) to demonstrate his point. But no, he has to run his hands lovingly, lecherously, over the page, touching the most important parts to make his point, instead of pointing.
OK, so maybe he is a professor of history. Maybe he has the decades of experience to be able to do these things cavalierly yet well. It still irritates the hell out of me.
And my point on the outright lie that the Greate Byble was the first to be printed in English stands.
Maybe it's just that the presenter irritates me mightily. The same content with, say, David Starkey would be far superior.
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Date: 2010-09-21 10:40 pm (UTC)Actually, I'd far prefer that he didn't touch them at all. Or at least limit it to turning to the pages he needs (but can't understand — he clearly said when he was fingering the Peterborough Chronicles that Old English is gibberish to him, even while someone who does speak the language had directed the cameraman to show a section of page which for those who can read OE illustrated the point he was making) to demonstrate his point. But no, he has to run his hands lovingly, lecherously, over the page, touching the most important parts to make his point, instead of pointing.
OK, so maybe he is a professor of history. Maybe he has the decades of experience to be able to do these things cavalierly yet well. It still irritates the hell out of me.
And my point on the outright lie that the Greate Byble was the first to be printed in English stands.
Maybe it's just that the presenter irritates me mightily. The same content with, say, David Starkey would be far superior.