Continuing my report on Barbara Yorke’s 2009 Jarrow lecture, she spent quite a bit of time on the relationship between Aldfrith and two of his good friends, Adomman and Aldhelm. How remarkable that this half-Irish, half Northumbrian prince had such close contact with two of the greatest scholars of his time. Yorke notes that both [...]
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11 Nov
Phoning in on St Columba
I’ll admit this post is primarily to test out the wordpress ap on the new iPhone. So far it’s slow (my fault not being used to these ‘keys’) and hard to edit.
The real bit of medieval news I heard today is that a Jeremy Irons has signed on to play Columba in a major movie [...]
22 Aug
Robin Hood and Merlin
Contrary to what you may be thinking, I haven’t fallen off the planet. Still having a little writers block but hopefully that will break free at some point.
In the meantime, I just saw that Robin Hood will return to BBC American on Saturday September 12.
The season finale of Merlin will also air this Sunday. I’m [...]
28 Jul
CFP: Plague and Famine: An Interdisciplinary View
I am organizing a session for the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies to be held from May 13-16, 2010 at Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo on the relationship between plague and famine.
Famines have long been associated with the two great historic plague pandemics: the plague of Justinian (541-c. 750) and the Black Death (14th [...]
22 Jul
Writer’s block
In an effort to break my writer’s block, I’m going to ask you all to help me pick who my next post post should be on.
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