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Celtic Studies Resources from a Digital Medievalist

Roman and Celtic Olfactory History

| March 15, 2002

I’m working on my diss, and I notice that one of my citations lacks the publication date. I borrowed the book from a friend, and returned it long ago, so I decide to use Amazon to check the data. In the process I discover that there are, I kid you not, scratch and sniff history [...]

Celtic Conferences

| March 13, 2002

The 24 Annual University of California Celtic Conference is this week, at UCLA. You can see the schedule here. Some of the papers from the 22nd conference are available here, in .pdf format. The 22nd (yes that’s right, UCLA was first) Harvard Celtic Colloquium is scheduled for Oct. 11, 12, and 13. The Vernam Hull [...]

Vellum beats Silicon

| March 3, 2002

Back in 1986, as a celebration of the 900th anniversary of the Domesday book, the census ordered by William the Bastard (that’s William the Conqueror to Sasenachs), Britain spent millions to compile text, images and, maps, audio and video recordings, as a snap shot of Britain, and stored them on laser discs as part of [...]

24th Annual University of California Celtic Conference

| March 3, 2002

This year the emphasis is (more than usually even!) on The Tainte and the Mabinogi. The program is here.