Barry Cunliffe. The Ancient Celts.
Lisa L. Spangenberg | March 28, 2006
There aren’t that many portraits of John Donne, and one of the best, the one you see here, has been in various private collections and less than accessible. This portrait was painted in Donne’s twenties, around the 1590s, the period when Jonson said “Donne wrote wrote all his best poetry,” the era in which we [...]
Lisa L. Spangenberg | March 23, 2006
Dr. V and Ancrene Wiseass are beginning to plan the First Annual Kalamazoo Bloggers’ Guild Meeting, but they’re running into some logistic difficulties and would like your input on several matters. To wit: If you’re thinking of coming, please let them know in the comments thread here. If you’re thinking of bringing a friend, colleague, [...]
Lisa L. Spangenberg | March 17, 2006
I know the author is planning an update, but I wanted to point to the exceedingly helpful collection of annotated and explained resources by Dr. Carol Dana Lanahm: Using Medieval Latin: A Toolbox of Resources. Technorati Tags:Latin
Lisa L. Spangenberg | March 17, 2006
For the last couple of days, I’ve been tormented by various people’s organizations’ ideas of what Irish music sounds like; mostly it’s been sort of like elevator music in dialect. If I’m lucky, it’s been Enya. Here are some alternatives. The Chieftains You can’t really talk about traditional Irish music without mentioning theChieftains. They brought [...]
Lisa L. Spangenberg | March 13, 2006
The BBC Web site is reporting the discovery of a 2000 year old carving of the British warrior-god Cocidius on Hadrian’s Wall, in Northumberland near Chester’s Fort. The language of the article, and of articles on the Web, implies that this “northern god,” as the BBC puts it, was Germanic. The carving, as you can [...]
The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Tales. Patrick K. Ford
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