Posts Tagged ‘medieval period’
From the Archives – Shin-kickers from History: Joan of Arc
Several months ago, I asked a group of family and friends to tell me what they knew about Joan of Arc, aka St. Joan, aka the Maid of Orleans–no stopping to look up the details. I needed to know how familiar the average smart, well-read, non-specialist is with her story.* The accuracy and detail of…
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Road Trip Through History: Mont Saint Michel
My Own True Love and I are in Normandy.* We are part of a D-Day tour run by the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, with a couple of days devoted to events other than D-Day. I am an outlier in the group in that I am more interested in William the Conqueror…
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This Isn’t a Blog Post.
It’s a link to a website I discovered when I was procrastinating on my Really Big Project.* Global Middle Ages is the home site for a group of projects that began with a teaching experiment at the University of Texas. The charge was “to see the world whole in a large swathe of time—as a…
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