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big fat history book - YOURS FOR FREE!
- um, if you can read Chinese and use big fat .pdf documents. I have a beautiful e-copy of THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES in Chinese which I don't need, but would hate to have to delete. Anyone who asks can have a copy. -
Kalamazoo meet-up??
Information for those going to the Zoo is here.
Please feel free to link back and otherwise pass the word.
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The Bayeux Tapestry
I am brainstorming a topic for my class and would be excited to hear other's thoughts on this topic. Any thoughts at all are of interest to me because I am ashamed to admit that I had not heard of this before. Perhaps that is why I chose this one for my paper. I know the basics at this point; history of the Norman conquest, not it isn't really a ( Read more... ) -
CFP: "Cities in History: Urban Identities Reconsidered"
Throughout history, the city has functioned as a dynamic nexus of cultural, political, and economic identities, a complex forum for the construction of social categories like ethnicity, class, and gender. Seeking to expand the discourse on this dynamic urbanism to a global platform and beyond the confines of periodization, the Fordham University ( Read more... ) -
Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
Hello, all,
This summer I plan on spending some time teaching myself some Old English in preparation of graduate school. But I was wondering if anybody could recommend a good dictionary? A web-based dictionary would be nice, but I'd prefer if anybody knew of a good paperback.
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Selling books ... medieval books
Hopefully this is okay to post here, I know I've bought books that were posted to this comm but that was years ago ( Read more... ) -
Only in Wikipedia
Someone began an article this week on the London Greyfriars (amazingly, there was no article already). Then the Wikipedians tried to delete it, imagining that nothing created on Wikipedia after 10 years of its existence could possibly be notable. Fortunately the article survived deletion.
This edit is also quite amusing. Someone changed "habits ( Read more... ) -
Some book advice!
Hello, I'm doing an opuscle about the Fisher King in Chrétien's "Li contes del Graal", I was searching some book advice. I've already checked some information around Internet, but I'm sure there is a lot of good material published (in fact, my problem is that I don't know what to choose!). I want to emphasize the possible inspiration that Chrétien ( Read more... ) -
CFP: Canada Chaucer Seminar 2011
Canada Chaucer Seminar ( Read more... ) -
THE CRUSADES, ISLAM AND BYZANTIUM: AN INTERDSCIPLINARY WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE
THE CRUSADES, ISLAM AND BYZANTIUM: AN INTERDSCIPLINARY WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE ( Read more... )