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Celtic Studies Resources from a Digital Medievalist

Rant: Twenty Worst Literary Agents

Lisa L. Spangenberg | May 24, 2006

Absolute Write is both a Web site, and a community for writers. Perhaps the most well-known part of the site is the forum, known as the Absolute Write Water Cooler. Don’t try to go there; you can’t right now, because of a malicious scammer with a bad temper.
Among other things, the Absolute Write Water [...]

Weblog Roundtable at Kalamazoo 2006

Lisa L. Spangenberg | May 8, 2006

Shana Worthen did an excellent job of moderating the roundtable discussion, with fellow bloggers Elisabeth Carnell, Michael Drout, Richard Nokes, Michael Tinkler, Alison Tara Walker, (the moderator of the Medieval Studies Community), and me, as participants in a discussion that ranged over why we started blogging, why we blog now, what blogging offers that other [...]

Celtic Wine

Lisa L. Spangenberg | May 4, 2006

The drink of choice among the wealthy is wine brought from Italy or the region of Massalia. It is normally drunk unmixed with water, although sometimes water is added.
Athaneus (fl. c. C. E. 200) Deipnosophistae trans. Phillip Freeman. (John T. Koch and John Carey eds. The Celtic Heroic Age. Celtic Studies Publications: Maldon, MA, 1995).
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