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Square-shoulder hollow-handled spade coin of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, between 650 and 400 BC, Fitzwilliam Museum CM.451-1999 We were working on this one so long that now it’s finally done I...
Apropos of putting together a lecture on medieval monasticism I was reminded of something that has before struck me as surprising, that there is not very obviously a translation online of Bede’...
The monastery of Santa Maria de Poblet, Catalonia, from Spanish Wikipedia Another wry example from the work of José Orlandis, which it may be simplest just to translate as it’s already q...
This is not an automatic post, this is as the title describes. A woman I knew died today. She was one of the ones we didn’t want to lose. She never published the below as far as I know—w...
The Hoernersburg LEGO Castle The only problem is that I would fear for future students starting to cite it. But seriously, I was trying to websearch up an illustration of a monastic refectory and cou...
I have told quite a few people to work on the records at Vic since I got shown round the archive there on my visit of a few years ago, because they have rooms and rooms of well-preserved documents in...
First robot I ever encountered April will, I hope, not be the cruellest month this year, because it will see the outcome of really quite a lot of effort this month. Yes: March is definitely going to ...
One of the reasons I’ve been shorter than usual of blogging time lately is that I’ve been attempting to make it to rather more seminars than I did the previous term. Of course, this then ...
I have very little time to write just now, and about eight blog posts existing only as titles and skeletons held together with a few sinewy links. In the meantime, you can have this. A couple of thin...
Don Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz as a young scholar I have written here before about the particular difficulty presented to the non-Spaniard trying to get a grip on the historiography of early med...
Very busy here at the moment, and little time to finish blog posts. I did at least write something over on Cliopatria, responding to a recent article in the Boston Globe about the supposed effectiven...
Okay, so, that’s all very depressing, makes you wonder why on earth you’d be a medievalist no doubt. Well, here’s one reason. While updating myself on the Fourth Crusade by reading ...
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