"Upset" & other nomenological phenomena
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Nov 20 00:02:24 UTC 2002
At 12:24 PM -0500 11/19/02, Baker, John wrote:
> King John II might plausibly hope to live down the failures
>of the first King John,
As Pope John XXIII lived down the ignominy of John XXII. Over
centuries had passed between the unpopular John XXII and the
"Antipope" John XXIII before *our* John XXIII, Angelo Roncalli, was
brave enough to rehabilitate the name in the late 1950's and early
1960's.
larry
> but no king could live up to the mythical accomplishments of King Arthur.
>
>John Baker
>
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