Here via niamh_sage who is usually right if she says someone is worth a look-see. I'm a Renaissance history geek, myself. I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts. :c)
At the moment I'm in the process of putting together a blogspot account to house my more coherently nerdy medieval thoughts. Presently, since it seems that blogger are about as annoying as LJ, the whole blog is frozen for fear that I'm SPAM, but hopefully i can get that sorted when the long weekend is past.
In the meantime, ye olde LJ will continue to house rantings and musings and so forth...
Re: "Observed many interesting things (eg- King Cnut, once crowned King, never went north of Oxford or east of Shrewsbury)."
According to my Macquarie Atlas of the World, Shrewsbury IS north of Oxford, and Oxford IS east of Shrewsbury. So where ed zachary did Cnut hang out? (I'd look it up in my Carter & Mears, but, umm, you've got it at the moment!)
Was backreading (thanks for adding me!) and I have a few thoughts:
1: Oh my god you're a person who knows who Aethelberht of York is! Somehow 2 characters in my robin hood universe got named Aethelberht and Thomas Beckett (brothers) by their extremely devout mother. I swear, I did not name them that way, they showed up that way. (I partially blame fisher_queen, though.) YOU ARE THE PERSON I AM WRITING FOR WHO GETS THAT JOKE
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*googles* It appears that AEthelbert may be another name for an Ealdorman Thored of York, who was around at about the time of the Norman Conquest? I don't have my copy of Stenton to hand... Or do you mean AEthelbert, Archbishop of York in the late 770s? In summary, SADLY I DO NOT GET THAT JOKE BUT I WOULD LIKE TO PLEASE EXPLAIN.
2. Ahaha, I worked on the Patrick hagiography for a while. Compared to to some random Norse bishop, for no good reason.
3. Ehehe, I read the Wanderer a couple of months ago. Only good thing about it as far as I'm concerned is the passage which Tolkien nicked, because it made me giggle. Bloody morose elegaic poetry. Gimme cranky celebate saints any day.
1: Ahem. Sorry it was late I should have finished that joke I forgot to finish the joke I'm a horrible person. AEthelbert (after the archbishop, yes) is called Ash. Everyone except his brother calls him Ash. That's the big joke. Aside the fact their mother gave them both dishearteningly unwieldy names to prove her piety.
2: ...XD. sometimes I think I'm going to write a paper about St. Brigid lore and hagiography enhancing the role of women in Irish Christianity but that's actually not my period or even my geographic location that I'm most interested in.
3: That's actually the part I was comparing it to. Uh. Because I really liked that part. I think The Wanderer is just awesomeshit mostly because I can read it without taking out an investment of several days (unlike, see, Beowulf.)
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At the moment I'm in the process of putting together a blogspot account to house my more coherently nerdy medieval thoughts. Presently, since it seems that blogger are about as annoying as LJ, the whole blog is frozen for fear that I'm SPAM, but hopefully i can get that sorted when the long weekend is past.
In the meantime, ye olde LJ will continue to house rantings and musings and so forth...
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I have a Medieval blog too: http://missmedieval.blogspot.com
Looking forward to reading more of you :o)
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*adds back*
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Keep up with the blog, BTW. Good work.
Wes thu hal!
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Friending is AOK by me :) And I do intend to keep up the NP, i've just had to take some down time right now, that's all...
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According to my Macquarie Atlas of the World, Shrewsbury IS north of Oxford, and Oxford IS east of Shrewsbury. So where ed zachary did Cnut hang out? (I'd look it up in my Carter & Mears, but, umm, you've got it at the moment!)
Cheers
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1: Oh my god you're a person who knows who Aethelberht of York is! Somehow 2 characters in my robin hood universe got named Aethelberht and Thomas Beckett (brothers) by their extremely devout mother. I swear, I did not name them that way, they showed up that way. (I partially blame fisher_queen, though.) YOU ARE THE PERSON I AM WRITING FOR WHO GETS THAT JOKE ( ... )
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*googles* It appears that AEthelbert may be another name for an Ealdorman Thored of York, who was around at about the time of the Norman Conquest? I don't have my copy of Stenton to hand... Or do you mean AEthelbert, Archbishop of York in the late 770s?
In summary, SADLY I DO NOT GET THAT JOKE BUT I WOULD LIKE TO PLEASE EXPLAIN.
2. Ahaha, I worked on the Patrick hagiography for a while. Compared to to some random Norse bishop, for no good reason.
3. Ehehe, I read the Wanderer a couple of months ago. Only good thing about it as far as I'm concerned is the passage which Tolkien nicked, because it made me giggle. Bloody morose elegaic poetry. Gimme cranky celebate saints any day.
SPAM. MEDIEVAL SPAM. FABULOUS.
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2: ...XD. sometimes I think I'm going to write a paper about St. Brigid lore and hagiography enhancing the role of women in Irish Christianity but that's actually not my period or even my geographic location that I'm most interested in.
3: That's actually the part I was comparing it to. Uh. Because I really liked that part. I think The Wanderer is just awesomeshit mostly because I can read it without taking out an investment of several days (unlike, see, Beowulf.)
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