Margaret the Dragon Slayer

Posted by hecubus on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @05:43PM
from the lrb.co.uk dept.

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Re:Margaret the Dragon Slayer by swombat on Friday April 26, 2019 @06:07PM (#19762176)

Stories are what the world is made of. They shape how we think. They determine what is “common sense” to us.

Change the stories, and you change the reality that we live in.

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Re:Margaret the Dragon Slayer by sbmassey on Friday April 26, 2019 @06:40PM (#19762373)

They change the reality we think we live in. The school of hard knocks separates the ones who believe in viable world models from those who don't.

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Re:Margaret the Dragon Slayer by adamc on Friday April 26, 2019 @06:10PM (#19762195)

How did Pope Gelasius label her apocryphal when she was born many centuries later? Something seems wrong with this story.

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Re:Margaret the Dragon Slayer by Worker87492 on Friday April 26, 2019 @08:49PM (#19763022)

I think 'life' in "In an 11th-century English life of Saint Margaret" means a chronicle.

If she existed it was in the 3rd century.

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