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 [...]
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11 Nov
Phoning in on St Columba
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.
10 Jul
Brendan and the Secret of Kells US debut
Brendan and the Secret of Kells will debut in New York on July 18th and 19th at the New York Children’s Film Festival. You can try to win free tickets here.

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