Friday, October 31, 2008

Daily Life in Chaucer’s England: What’s New in the Second Edition?

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The second edition is significantly expanded. I don’t have a final page count yet since I just turned in the index, but it looks like it wi...

Daily Life in Chaucer's England, Second Edition

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This is one of the major reasons my blogging has been light lately. I've completed the index and sent off my corrections to the page pr...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Medieval Living History at Pennsylvania Colonial Plantation, October 18-19

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An event in Media, PA. La Belle Compagnie will attend. So will I. Update: Venison marinated in red wine and roasted on a spit. Mmmmmm. Ther...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Machaut and the Robot

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MESSENGER, our robot proxy near Mercury, has taken a stunning picture of the crater Machaut, named after the 14th century poet and composer...
Thursday, October 02, 2008

Staggeringly Recursive Marginalia Jokes

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Got Medieval has a splendid post on an extended and erudite joke expressed by a grotesque figure in the margins of a medieval MS. If you hav...
Wednesday, October 01, 2008

In my Parallel Universe…..

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Flying robots from the Holy Land protect the Pope. Who is battling a lawsuit filed on behalf of the Templars . Meanwhile, there’s a Zeppeli...

More on the Recent Unpleasantness

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Tyler Cowen has an excellent summary here .
Sunday, September 28, 2008

The Recent Unpleasantness on Wall Street

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Two sensible posts here and here . I see a few elements as essential. Millions of Americans were overoptimistic about future home prices. ...

The Myth of Pre-Literacy

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Got Medieval has a nice piece on the myth of pre-literacy . It includes an explanation of why this blog has the name it does.
Monday, September 15, 2008

Deeds of Arms at St. Festus Faire

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Let all princes, lords, barons, knights and squires of the marches of the Isle de France, Champagne, Flanders, Ponthieu first of seignories,...