Compared to this revolution [the invention of the "romantic species of passion" by medieval poets] the Renaissance is a mere ripple on the surface of literature.Now that was a real, take-no-prisoners medievalist!
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Jeff contemplates Jefferson at Williamsburg: Poring over a 15th-century legal tract, Jefferson encountered a modern preface arguing that a ...
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From the New York Times, news of an edition of the Bible annotated solely with C.S. Lewis quotations: The Lewis Bible, available in cloth (1...
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...if you are very, very rich. (Most mss. of this age and quality are in national or university libraries and are not for sale at any price... -
Jeff contemplates Jefferson at Williamsburg: Poring over a 15th-century legal tract, Jefferson encountered a modern preface arguing that a ...
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From the New York Times, news of an edition of the Bible annotated solely with C.S. Lewis quotations: The Lewis Bible, available in cloth (1...
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Couple of weeks ago, to my great surprise, a writer named Ted Gioia wrote an article about science-fiction author Cordwainer Smith for the A... -
The English lawsuit, Scrope v. Grosvenor has a prominent place in the history of heraldry, since a record of the case before the court of ch...
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From The Medieval Review: Bell, Adrian R., Anne Curry, Adam Chapman, Andy King, and David Simpkin, ed. The Soldier Experience in the Fourtee...
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I didn't know about this book until a few minutes ago, but I take a positive review by Jonathan Jarrett on such a subject pretty serio...
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In Charny's Questions on Tournaments , there is a case proposed to Charny's audience about a knight who brings a beautiful destrier ...
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I am indebted to the Iraqi journalists who report for McClatchy, an American news service, from Baghdad. In recent days they have been inter...
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Carnivalesque is a monthly "carnival" which collects interesting links from blogs that discuss pre-modern history. Every other ...
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