I downloaded a reader app for my iPhone and, browsing around Project Gutenberg for something public domain to read, I came across A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483, as transcribed and published by a couple of C19th antiquarians. There’s an awful lot of bureaucratic stuff about the mayor and sheriffs of London, and who’s in the [...]
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7 December 2008 – 10:00 pm
BibliOdyssey: Brothers in Craft
images of medieval tradesmen
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‘Byzantium 330-1453’ at the Royal Academy
27 November 2008 – 1:33 pm
The latest blockbuster exhibition at the RA is Byzantium 330-1453. It’s a big show, but then it does survey a millennium’s worth of art from a big empire.
It’s odd; I think most people who have even a general interest in history and culture have some knowledge, however sketchy or inaccurate, of classical Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, and [...]
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13 November 2008 – 10:00 pm
Image:Giovanni Francesco Caroto 001.jpg – Wikimedia Commons
One of the Renaissance portraits currently at the National Gallery: Caroto’s portrait of a child holding a self-portrait.
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The Art of Onfim: Medieval Novgorod Through the Eyes of a Child | MetaFilter
‘Amazing collection of sketches and doodles, drawn on birch bark, created by a child in [...]
1000 AD survival tips
12 June 2008 – 10:58 am
Kottke pointed out this thread, a discussion starting from this question:
I wanted to ask for survival tips in case I am unexpectedly transported to a random location in Europe (say for instance current France/Benelux/Germany) in the year 1000 AD (plus or minus 200 years). I assume that such transportation would leave me with what I [...]
The Mabinogion trans. Sioned Davies
29 May 2008 – 11:19 am
I didn’t do my normal thing of looking for appropriate reading materials before going on holiday — I mean, I’d already read How Green Was My Valley and Under Milk Wood, so there didn’t seem to be much point in looking for anything else.*
But when I was running out of reading matter and went to [...]
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25 May 2008 – 9:00 am
Emperor of Ice-Cream Cakes: Poems Are Jokes: Dispatches from the Front LINES, It Is a Pun
"It's a dazzling day, the sun is a fiery phoenix, the birds let loose with craps of joy, and the Phelps crazies are here in town to protest. Time to make a damn sign."
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BibliOdyssey: Gothic Illuminated Sketchbook
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Cranach at the Royal Academy
23 April 2008 – 11:27 am
Now this is my kind of exhibition. I don’t what it is I find so appealing about the Northern Renaissance; obviously, artists like Dürer, Van Eyck and Breugel are among the all-time greats of European art, but I love it all: van der Weyden, Memling, Bosch, Holbein, and indeed the star of this show, Lucas Cranach the [...]
More medievalish London
2 March 2008 – 5:52 pm
In my last Thames Path post, I commented that London’s medieval history is rarely visible except in the shape of a few street names. Which reminded me of something. When the Queen Mother (gbh) died in 2002, her coffin was laid in state in Westminster Hall for people to go and pay their respects. I [...]
The Thames path, London Bridge to Westminster
26 February 2008 – 4:25 pm
A fairly short chunk of the path; I was intending to go a bit further, but the sun went in and I wasn’t really enjoying it much so I hopped on the tube at Westminster. Still, if you use one of the traditional definitions of a city—a town with a cathedral—this section includes the three [...]
Medieval ivory at the Courtauld
30 January 2008 – 12:20 pm
The Courtauld Gallery currently has a small but perfectly formed exhibition of medieval ivories.
I do love me some medieval art. And I can really see why someone would collect ivories: they are small but full of character, and I imagine they are beautifully tactile although obviously I didn’t get my hands on the ones in [...]
The V&A online
9 August 2006 – 12:47 pm
The V&A seems to have put lots more of their stuff online since I last looked, and it’s all searchable. I wondered if there was a photo of the terracotta Virgin Mary and Child I wrote a poem about a few years ago, but it seems not. Lots of other good stuff though, like this [...]
Woolf on Chaucer (again)
29 May 2005 – 2:59 pm
Because it’s been bugging me ever since I read the essay Aruna told me about.
This example, for me, sums up what’s wrong with Woolf’s approach to Chaucer:
“But there is another and more important reason for the surprising brightness, the still effective merriment of the Canterbury Tales. Chaucer was a poet; but he never flinched from [...]
Beowulf as a chiefdom-based society
20 January 2005 – 5:06 pm
I’m just reading Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright, a book which argues that there is in fact a good theoretical basis (from game-theory) for seeing the development of human societies as directional. I believe the book later goes onto biological systems as well, but I haven’t got to that bit. Anyway, [...]