Lisa Spangenberg | January 21, 2012
I began this blog on January 21, 2002. My very first post is here. My friend and former colleague iPaulo is still blogging. My friend Kip started blogging in 2002 as well, and is celebrating. I’ve started a few other blogs since then, on IT: Technology, Language and Culture (also started in January of 2002, and [...]
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Lisa Spangenberg | January 12, 2012
January in the middle ages was especially associated with feasting, and exchanging gifts on New Year’s and on Twelfth Night. In the c. 1400 Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the narrator refers to the nobles at Arthur’s court on January 1st exchanging gifts and playing games, including kissing games, perhaps, and [...]
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