Phil Paine's great mountain adventure. This post is mainly for archival purposes. See the illustrated version at Phil's blog. . If you are on Facebook, see Filip Marek's pictures. What follows here took place during the second week of September. It was planned a long time ahead. A quarter century of friendship between myself and Filip Marek would be celebrated with...
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Selasa, 29 September 2015
My interview with Medievalists.net: chivalry in the era of the Hundred Years War
Five Medieval Minutes with Steven MuhlbergerSEPTEMBER 24, 2015 BY MEDIEVALISTS.NETBy Danièle CybulskieThis week at Medievalists.net, we’ve been thinking a lot about The Hundred Years’ War, so we thought we’d bring you five minutes with an expert on fourteenth-century chivalry and combat. Like so many things in the Late Middle Ages, The Hundred Years’ War was deeply influenced by...
Senin, 21 September 2015
On libraries

This is a Soviet-era technical library that I first saw on the pioneering Russian picture-blog English Russia. Any scholar or other lover of books has to have a visceral reaction to this scene of apparent devastation. But quite recently I visited a nearby university...
Minggu, 13 September 2015
What's wrong with the Canadian Conservative Party
I needed to include this column in my blog. It says so many important things. There’s truth in advertising after all – Stephen Harper isn’t perfect TABATHA SOUTHEYThe Globe and MailPublished Friday, Sep. 11, 2015 1:26PM EDT It’s clear the Conservatives were caught off guard by the general public’s recent swell of concern for Syrian refugees, a cause for which the party has...
Sabtu, 12 September 2015
Medieval Mounted Combat
The Jousting Life has made available some amazing demonstrations of how cavalry combat in the Middle Ages may have worked. Have a look at this YouTube video and tell me you aren't impressed. What impresses me is the level of horsemanship that is both demonstrated and impli...
Kamis, 10 September 2015
Folk of the Air
I promised a couple of weeks ago to discuss The Folk of the Air, a novel by Peter S Beagle, which contrary to the opinion of some readers I think is a very successful piece of literature.It might be considered a novel of hippy-dom in the San Francisco Bay area in the early 1970s. It is also a book about the intrusion of supernatural elements into a modern community. And most of...
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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...
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A dissent from the Globe and Mail's endorsement: Anyone but Harper.
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An excerpt of the review on the e-mail list, TMR-L (The Medieval Review) , a useful and timely resource you can subscribe to free. Greco, Gi...
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I am working away at a book about French military history in the 14th century, and I've just come to the realization that my planned tit...
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I haven't seen a lot of Fellini movies, and I certainly missed this one when it first came out. It may be just as well -- I don't kn...
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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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That's what one expert said about the biggest Anglo-Saxon treasure trove ever found -- a huge collection of items, many of them stripped...
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Not exactly puritanical: From Arabist.net with this commentary: A wonderful video in the context of calls for strict censorship in state...
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That's what my reaction to my first day at Walt Disney World was. By no means was this meant as a snobbish put-down. When it comes to Fo...