JLiedl brings us -- Carnivalesque!

Some choice blog posts from Carnivalesque 75 -- this issue being the ancient and medieval one.

Jonathan Jarrett does Carnivalesque

Carnivalesque is a monthly "carnival" which collects interesting links from blogs that discuss pre-modern history. Every other month it focuses on ancient and medieval blogs. It's one of those months, and the turn of Jonathan Jarrett of A Corner of 10th Century Europe to do the collecting. He's done a fabulous job. Go see.

Image: The emperor Pertinax from here.

Unleashed upon a waiting world -- Carnivalesque!

Bloggers with a particular interest in ancient, medieval or early modern history occasionally get together at the grand carnival called Carnivalesque. A carnival is one of those "Internet traditions" you sometimes hear about. Some hapless volunteer is dragooned into looking over recent contributions by her or his peers, and choosing the ones to recommend to everybody else. Carnivalesque comes out roughly monthly, and alternates between ancient/medieval material and early modern mostly European. Today Gill Polack, who claims to come from someplace more remote than Bonfield, Ontario -- a mythical antipodes? -- has put together a compilation of the earlier eras. Go read!

Carnivalesque #57

A fine collection of recent posts from Ancient and Medieval blogs, collected at Zenobia: Empress of the East. Read!

Carnivalesque is here!

Gillian Polack at Food History has posted the June edition of the ancient/medieval/early modern Carnivalesque. Go have a look!

For me, the best discovery is the existence of Food History itself, which somehow had never lodged itself firmly in my brain.