colin samuels hosts blawg review #35
Wow! Colin Samuels has put together what is easily the best Blawg Review of them all over at his Infamy or Praise blog.
As Colin sets out, the phrase “infamy or praise” is from Dante’s Inferno and this week’s Blawg Review is a tour of law blogs categorized according to the differing planes of hell. Why is this so topical, well….
“In addition to the fact that it provided the name of your host’s blog, Dante’s masterwork is an appropriate basis for this week’s Blawg Review for another reason (and no, I wasn’t going to say that all lawyers belong in Hell). Prior to Dante’s work in the early years of the 14th century, the divisions in poetry between those with “high” topics and language and those with “low” topics and language was quite strict. Wikipedia provides a good characterization of Dante’s impact on this status quo:
Low poems had happy endings and were of everyday or vulgar subjects, while High poems were
for more serious matters. Dante was one of the first in the Middle Ages to write of a serious subject, the Redemption of man, in the low and vulgar language of Italian, not Latin as one might expect for such a serious topic.
I cannot think of a better analogue to legal blogging! What are legal blogging generally and Blawg Review specifically if not the discussion of serious subjects in more accessible forums and in more accessible language?”
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Posted by Douglas Sorocco, December 6, 2005 at 10:08 am
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