The woes of scholarship

[fpb]

Aie aie aie. Woe oh woe.

Having to read very large books.
Having to read very large books in German.
Having to read very large books in German and printed in Gothic script.

Comments

[curia-regis.livejournal.com]

At least it should be visually pleasing? I mean, I think Gothic script is pretty. I really can't remember the last time I looked at it!

Visually pleasing?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Jt02AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Mommsen+inauthor:Mommsen&lr=&as_brr=0#PPP4,M1

Re: Visually pleasing?

[curia-regis.livejournal.com]

Well I do think the lettering looks pretty...

Re: Visually pleasing?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I guess it's a matter of taste. And also of not associating a certain style with military brutality, secret police and death camps. But even if that were not the case, I would still say that Roman looks more elegant and uncluttered. A curious piece of history: it was the Nazis who, in 1937, ordered the transition from Fraktur to Roman, after a nationwide study had proved that Roman was faster to read and easier to understand even for native Germans.