I have finished my third Harvey Goldberg lecture transcription: Beginnings of Capitalism (in England).
Original audio lecture (#41) is available at:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120511113937/http://brechtforum.org/harvey-goldberg-lectures
Audio link in the transcript may be out of date.
You can read it at:
Microsoft Word:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/106gnopx7L-taeTnZLFSKsKI_vlzZ50bj5Resb3XqaFE/edit
If you'd like an HTML file to work with, simply download the Word file as an HTML file and then open it in your browser
The transcription is annotated and contains two bibliographies at the end of the lecture.
Dec. 22, 2014, I have revised the Word Document. I found the reference to the biographer of William Stumpe. It was J.W. Gough in a book called The Rise of the Entrepreneur. It now appears as footnote #26 in the document. Footnote #22 (referring to William Stumpe) has been expanded to find other biographical sources for him.
Goldberg mentioned "Stumpe's biographer," who I was pretty sure was named "Gough." But when I looked up Gough and Stumpe in WorldCat (the most powerful catalog lookup tool on the planet), I couldn't find a biography anywhere. So I thought I was incorrect about "Gough" and thus called the biographer's name "unintelligible" (an easy but unsatisfying solution to my problem). It wasn't until later that I thought to look in the periodical literature. Almost instantly I was able to find a review of Gough's book listed above that mentioned Stumpe. Presto, I found the book, the quote, and the footnote about the quote that mentioned it was a paraphrase from G.D. Ramsay's The Wiltshire Woolen Industry in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. The footnotes in these two books led me to Thomas Fuller's History of the Worthies of England (Vol. 3) and Canon Manley's "William Stumpe of Malmsbury" in Wiltshire Notes and Queries No. VIII. There lay much more biographical information on Stumpe, which you can now see. See the above footnotes for more on all this.
Fuller and Manley are easy to find online. But I wouldn't have found them at all if not for Gough and Ramsay. And that is where the awesome power of a major university research library comes in. My university has one of the largest research libraries of any public university in the US. Having access to it is a great gift and privilege for me. Not only can I see how many sources Goldberg was into, but I can see the sources. The man's scope and breadth of reading was phenomenal. I've done three lectures so far and there is a semester's worth of reading in each lecture. Think about that the next time you take a university class.
I am trying an experiment with Google Docs. Supposedly you will be able to read the Word file. Google has changed some things with Google Docs since the last time I uploaded. Whether any of this will work for you is a mystery to me. Feedback would be welcomed at:.
jbsolock1@gmail.com
Please put "Goldberg Lectures" in the subject line.
The Microsoft Word links, though appearing to be live, may not be. If
single or double clicking on them doesn't work, save the file and use the links directly. Once you have a live, working Word
document, to get the links to work, just hit the CTRL key and left
click the mouse on the link simultaneously. Links that, in the future, might move or die, should be cut and pasted into the Wayback Machine at
http://archive.org
That is the best way to recover lost links at present. Each link was checked and worked at the time of release of this blog item.
I hope the transcription is legible to you.
Enjoy.
For exclusive links to all Goldberg transcriptions on this blog click
"Goldberg" next to the "Labels" tag at the bottom of this item. The next
transcription will be #42: Luther Wunzer [sic]. Wunzer is actually Thomas Muenzer.
BTW: Who's Harvey Goldberg, some of you might ask? See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Goldberg
