- Contrary to what my students seem to believe, I did not watch the Battle of Stamford Bridge on the news.
- I need to buy this, so I can smell sexy and medieval for the ladies ... er, wenches?
- Behold what now festoons my door! Japes for Owre Tymes, h/t Per Omnia Saecula.
- Psalm 23, in Old English and Latin.
- Would you like to see images of castle walls? Of course you would!
- Here's a post mentioning the Lacnunga and honoring fennel. It probably says something about me that my heart began to beat faster as I read it.
- Lingwe begins a series on Tolkien's "Errantry."
- JJ Cohen discusses a connection between Old Norse and children's lit ... well, tween lit, I guess.
- Julie K. Rose tells us of the uses of dragon's blood, which unfortunately is an herb and not what I'd hoped.
- Heroic Dreams has a post on medieval and renaissance costumes, a Guide to Medieval Weapons for Writers (I'm still waiting for a guide to medieval writers for weaponsmiths), and more mini trebuchets.
- As always, new CfPs at The Heroic Age. Grad students and junior faculty: If you've got a paper, there's a session out there that's a perfect fit.
- According to Henchminion, "There are now officially four extant manuscripts of Fiore dei Liberi's Flower of Battle." Openlice, this is a big deal.
- Jonathan Jarrett has "Feudal Transformations IX," which he suggested in an earlier comment will be the last one. if it really is the last, perhaps a post consisting of links to the whole shebang together? He also discusses the debate over Greenland, Vikings, the medieval warm period, and Christianity.
- Jarrett's post reminded me of NOAA's old dishonest position regarding the Medieval Warm Period (which said there was no medieval warm period, and then offered as the only evidence a study that argued no such thing), followed by their quiet revision of that five months ago. That revision still stands. It's still mealy-mouthed, but better than publishing ridiculous.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Morning Medieval Miscellany
You can't be too thin, too rich, or too medieval.
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Mmmm...chestnut seed extract.
ReplyDeleteNo, really, that's just silly. Though it is pretty cool to use ancient/medieval conquerors in advertising. Though, I'm guessing most potential consumers are thinking along the lines of Brad Pitt and not actual historical figures when they see those names.
... too thin, too rich, too medieval, or in excessive possession of suspect body products. The Warrior Collection. That just makes my day.
ReplyDeleteThankyou again for the link! I gathered Feudal Transformations I-VI in an earlier post here; the subsequent three instalments have several outliers on feudalism but not specifically on the supposed transformation, and how they should all be gathered, except via my 'feudalism' category, is something I'm still working out. Hopefully this will all end in published work, maybe I'll reference them all there :-)
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