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Celtic Studies Resources from a Digital Medievalist

Gallic Carynx Find

Lisa L. Spangenberg | November 30, 2004

Last week both Mirabillis.ca and Celtica Studica linked to stories about an incredible find of five Celtic battle trumpets, or carnyxes. The 470 objects and fragments of objects, (the find is stupendous in terms of the objects) were found at the end of September during a dig at Naves, in Correze in southern France, in [...]

Cantigas de Santa Maria

Lisa L. Spangenberg | November 26, 2004

A few days ago Metafilter had an interesting link to this site about the Cantigas de Santa Maria. The Cantigas de Santa Maria represent one of the largest collections of solo songs from the middle ages. The manuscripts were written during the reign of King Alfonso X “El Sabio” (1221-1284), though probably not actually [...]