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 [...]
30 Apr
Dr Margaret Gelling
Antiquarian’s Attic is reporting that Dr Margaret Gelling died this week. For those of you not familiar with her work, Dr Gelling was one of the best known English place-name scholars. She was best known for her work at uncovering Old English origins for English placenames and the vocabulary of Old English geographical terms. A [...]
22 Jan
Robin Hood Season 3
Since its been a little while how about something fun? I know that the BBC’s series Robin Hood takes great liberty with the traditional story. I have to admit, I like it and I did like the ending last season. They killed off Marian (who was getting way too feminist for the era of King [...]
12 Dec
Merlin
A preview of the new BBC series Merlin:
A link directly to the BBC’s website for Merlin. According to the Wikipedia entry, NBC has bought the broadcast rights and it is projected to begin in the US in January 2009.
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