Comments on: Stephen Selby, Antiquarian https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/05/05/stephen-selby-antiquarian/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 19 May 2016 20:28:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: John Rowe https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/05/05/stephen-selby-antiquarian/#comment-1089325 Thu, 19 May 2016 20:28:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=31568#comment-1089325 On thinking about Geoffrey of Monmouth I don’t think he was writing history as we know it but providing a manual for good kingship in difficult times and legitimising the Empress Matilda as sovereign, the whole wrapped up in a story designed to appeal to the Anglo-Normans.

]]> By: John Rowe https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/05/05/stephen-selby-antiquarian/#comment-1086806 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:26:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=31568#comment-1086806 Not just “modern historians” Gerald of Wales, William of Newburgh, and Polydore Virgil to give a few examples thought Geoffrey of Monmouth was writing a load of crap with his idea of Brutus founding Britain and then London.

]]> By: Paul https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/05/05/stephen-selby-antiquarian/#comment-919260 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 13:59:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=31568#comment-919260 “modern historians set themselves apart from legend and myth though an insistence upon verifiable fact”
Ah, yes. Those inconvenient facts. There you are, speculating about lines on an old map whilst halfway down your second bottle of red when someone punctures your argument with a fact. Like Pytheas of Massalia writing about ‘Nesoi Brettaniai’ two hundred and fifty years before the birth of Brutus.
Stephen’s a lovely old card and a lush, but I always wondered if he was actually just getting a rise out of being a contrarian. Once told me climate change wasn’t happening and all those scientists were wrong and He, scotch in one hand fag in the other, knew differently.

]]> By: jacky jezewski https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/05/05/stephen-selby-antiquarian/#comment-26793 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:09:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=31568#comment-26793 Well I never, such fascinating theories hopefully they can be backed up with true facts

]]> By: CornishCockney https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/05/05/stephen-selby-antiquarian/#comment-14595 Thu, 05 May 2011 17:42:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=31568#comment-14595 Fascinating! Just becasue Roman history is pretty much the earliest surviving written record of the area, doesn’t mean it’s the start of London, or is indeed a correct account! I’d love to learn more on this subject.

]]> By: M@ https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/05/05/stephen-selby-antiquarian/#comment-14553 Thu, 05 May 2011 12:35:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=31568#comment-14553 Incredible, fascinating stuff. Has Stephen written up his research and theories? I would love to read more. (Although, I confess, I’m rather sceptical of the triangle’s significance. You could no doubt find hundreds of similar relationships around the city.)

]]> By: Anne https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/05/05/stephen-selby-antiquarian/#comment-14523 Thu, 05 May 2011 09:40:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=31568#comment-14523 Vates has the same origin as Wotan, and wednesday.

Anne

]]> By: Herry Lawford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/05/05/stephen-selby-antiquarian/#comment-14508 Thu, 05 May 2011 08:24:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=31568#comment-14508 Always fascinating; this even more so!

]]> By: Donald Carlton Burns https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/05/05/stephen-selby-antiquarian/#comment-14491 Thu, 05 May 2011 01:19:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=31568#comment-14491 You two have become inteernational treasures. With great civility and charm you both delight your grateful reader.

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