I've spent International Women's Day this year by turns writing about eleventh-century Dol-Combourg and knitting - perhaps more knitting and less writing than might be considered ideal ( Read more... )

WHOA, WAIT, STOP EVERYTHING. I discovered earlier this week while I was reading an article about nuns that several women from the diocese of Nantes (which I am totally counting as Brittany for the purposes of my dissertation, although people who work on Anjou might disagree) became nuns at the abbey of Ronceray in Angers, or its priories in and ( Read more... )

Hello, lj peeps! I'm not dead! I'm not dead of having my heart trampled by game 7 of the finals, although it is still a little achy, and might stay that way until the new season starts to reassure me. I actually think that, although the Canucks were the better team overall, the Bruins won the mental game, not to mention the media game, and were ( Read more... )

I've been working very hard this week (and last weekend) on all the transcribing and translating I have to do before I can seriously start my paper for advisor R's seminar, and despite a late-ish start this morning that continued right up to mid-afternoon today. Then, however, I realized I was very tired, and I also got swamped by a tide of ( Read more... )

Now that Christmas is over, Yuletide! I've only just started browsing the archive (which seems, this year, not to include very many fandoms that I'm familiar with), but I come with some preliminary recs, and of course, to rec the story I received!

So, first of all, I received a lovely Brother Cadfael fic, Unexpected Gift. It's the Hugh Berengar/ ( Read more... )

So, while I was lurking over the weekend deep in the heart of Boston, communing with Americans who were communing with turkey, and not paying attention, Canadian politics was apparently hitting the crack pipe and hitting it hard. No, I'm serious ( Read more... )

I am very, very tempted, first of all, to get THESE. The Dr. Martens USA store is not helping that temptation at all when it offers me 15% discounts as a reward for past customer loyalty. Are they not the most ass-kicking red mary jane-style heels ever ( Read more... )

So this afternoon as I was working my way through the late afternoon sleepies, reading John Gillingham's article, "Thegns and Knights in Eleventh-Century England: Who Was Then the Gentleman?" I happened to glance up and see my semester's reading list. And I was completely struck anew by how sexy it is. Seriously, I get to spend my life these days ( Read more... )

Hmm, I suppose it's time to update. And really, I should take a moment to express my gratitude for the fact that I can. My family's internet service provider went down provincewide today, and hasn't come back up. Thanks to dear wee bro Marek, however, and the fact that he set his friend next door up with an open wireless network (with a ( Read more... )