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Celtic Studies Resources from a Digital Medievalist

Manx Language and Culture Resources

Lisa L. Spangenberg | June 28, 2005

Just in time for a friendly link from Language Hat, I’ve updated my list of Manx Web sites.

A New Bog Body: “The Girl of the Uchter Moor”

Lisa L. Spangenberg | June 22, 2005

There are a number of well-known bog bodies; the most recent, and the one we have the best data on, is Lindow Man. But recently a body was found in a peat bog in in the town of Uchte, in Lower Saxony (that’s in the northern part of Germany). Peat bogs are now mined with [...]

Le Figaro Stings French Vanity Publishers

Lisa L. Spangenberg | June 12, 2005

Via Anne Weale’s Bookworm on the Net, I read this Times UK article about a French variant on the Travis Tea Atlanta Nights sting perpetrated by SFWA upon vanity “publisher” PublishAmerica.
French newspaper Le Figaro submitted a copy of Gustave Flaubert’s exceedingly well-known and much beloved nineteenth century novel, Madame Bovary to the five [...]