Life in the Middle Ages
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Reims cathedral
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Reims cathedral is now considered one of the glories of Gothic architecture, built in the thirteenth century more or less to a single plan,...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Papyrus and popes
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Papyrus was considered the only proper writing material in late antiquity in the Mediterranean basin. It was made from papyrus reeds, espec...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Invention of Tradition
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"Invention of tradition" is a great term. It was originally coined by Eric Hobsbawm, to mean a conscious effort to create a vis...
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Kinds of Fantasy
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In the late 1960s - early '70s, fantasy became its own genre. Now the word "fantasy" had been around for a long time, meanin...
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Thursday, March 28, 2024
To Be Roman
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As I discussed back when I first started this blog, it is wrong to think of the Roman Empire of antiquity as "falling" to barbar...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Global Middle Ages part 2
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In my previous post I discussed the idea of the Global Middle Ages, a fairly new aspect of the study of medieval history, taken up in part...
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Global Middle Ages
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Recently medievalists have begun talking about what is called "the global Middle Ages," that is extending their study beyond west...
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