Umberto Eco has died

Re:Umberto Eco has died by wobbleblob on Saturday February 20, 2016 @02:16AM (#11139249)

It's not medieval philosophy, with "years after that conversation was set", the poster you're replying to means 600 years. The book should not be seen as an historic work.

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Re:Umberto Eco has died by ZeroGravitas on Saturday February 20, 2016 @04:50AM (#11139558)

That's one of many modern references in the book (to Borges, Sherlock Holmes, the conventions of the whodunnit, etc) but I think it's clear that some effort is being made by Eco to exhibit the thought processes and preoccupations of the medieval mind.

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Re:Umberto Eco has died by huxley on Saturday February 20, 2016 @11:24AM (#11140684)

Anachronistic quotations happened quite often in ancient and medieval writing, so Eco was just having a bit of fun.

I agree that the Name of the Rose is not an historic work (incidentally so did Eco), but plenty of medievalists think that it is good enough to be a useful teaching tool:

http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2009/postscr...

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Re:Umberto Eco has died by wobbleblob on Saturday February 20, 2016 @03:48PM (#11141878)

Do you know how medievalists view the Accursed Kings series of Maurice Druon?

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