- Archaeology in Europe has an update.
- In the Middle discusses Jewish/Christian/Queer, which was apparently published by a typesetter without a space bar but with a working backslash key, and has the cover design for postmedieval, which is apparently published by a typesetter without a shift key. I kind of like this cover color better.
- News for Medievalists has a story about the remains of a medieval castle found in a tunnel excavation in Basque. If I'm reading the image right, was the castle basically inside that tunnel? Kind of cool.
- Here's a George RR Martin fansite called A Podcast of Ice and Fire. h/t Steven Till. At my insistence, Wordhoarder Nick of Nowhere has begun reading Game of Thrones, and apparently doesn't like it, so that's one less fan for Martin.
- Medieval Bookworm has a review of Robin McKinley's Beauty.
- The Brussels Journal has "A History of Western Music, Part I."
- Here's a blog I've seen, but has somehow not popped up on my Blogroll or RSS feed: Medieval Music.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Morning Medieval Miscellany
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A Podcast of Ice and Fire is fan created and has no affiliation with George R R Martin.
ReplyDeleteOK, corrected.
ReplyDeleteNews for Medievalists has a story about the remains of a medieval castle found in a tunnel excavation in Basque. If I'm reading the image right, was the castle basically inside that tunnel?
ReplyDeleteI wondered the same thing, as well as exactly how much of a tunnel this given the frequent use of the word `pass'. The somewhat incoherent Wikipedia page and the pages it links to (I confess, I didn't read the Basque ones) suggest that (b) it really is a fully-enclosed tunnel, at least for part of the route, but that (a) the fortress that is known stood above the north entrance, so outside. That seems more likely to me as I'm not sure exactly how you distinguish a `castle' inside a hill from any other sort of cave dwelling. How do you fortify it, exactly? And so on. Still, maybe they've found something extra I haven't anticipated. I hope there's some English publication of the finds, or even Spanish.