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• Textbooks

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — Authority: 146
  (A note for my SWBTS students:)  You have been asking what textbooks I will be using next semester. Hopefully, this advance notice will allow you to shop for the best prices. You will find below a list of the textbooks for the three sections I am teaching. CHURCH AND EMPIRES (sections 1203a and 1203b) A Short ...
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• Medieval Mixed Bag

  
  Brokn Heart Art — Authority: 113
  I took a much needed break from Charm Chicanery and Dabbled in the Middle Ages. WAAAY before DG3 was invented. teehee. I worked on two more Armored Men for the Manuscript: Hes not glued in yet. I have to find a very beautiful male face to add. I just love the crackle stamp on the Armor. I used my fav ...
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• Dan J. Schulte: Wizard’s Workshop (Medieval Fantasy Volume One)

  
  Cell Phone Offers — Authority: 166
  Author: DanJSchulte Keywords: dan j. schulte dungeons and dragons gary gygax rpg medieval fantasy dave arneson AD&D D&D old school gaming Added: November 15, 2009
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• Blogging history

  
  Muhlberger's Early History — Authority: 131
  Jeffrey J. Cohen, over at the blog In the Middle , is running a series of "blogging histories" by medievalists. This could serve as an introduction to blogs you havent run across yet. Blog history #1 (Cohens view of early days) is here ; mine, #8, is here .
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• Antiquities-for-taxes swap saves Welsh archive

  
  The History Blog — Authority: 470
  Unlike the Vasari scheme , this one was even consensual! A little known codicil in the UK tax code allows inheritors of major estates with the attendant major tax bill to give the government assets of historical value in lieu of 40% of payment. The heirs of Penrhyn Castle in Gwynedd, Wales, were therefore able to ...
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• Is the American civil war really over??

  
  World Affairs Board — Authority: 449
  The shooting has long since stopped, but how does it affect attitudes and cultural differences today.
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• Beautiful 15th Century Gold Coin

  
  Page in History — Authority: 123
  The article isnt particularly interesting, but the coin is just lovely. Im afraid youll have to watch an ad before the BBC video begins. =====Rare gold coin sparks legal row (BBC News)The discovery of a rare 15th Century gold coin in Powys has triggered a legal row.The coin, from the reign of Henry IV, was unearthed ...
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• Finding a Medieval Wedding Dress

  
  Medieval Fashion — Authority: 125
  One of the unique wedding theme that has become quite a popular medieval theme wedding. The wedding guests something like medieval costumes and medieval bride wears a wedding dress post. The search for a medieval wedding dress is a very difficult task because many dress wedding dress designers have a very limited ...
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• Historical Fiction: People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks

  
  You're History ! — Authority: 121
  The illuminated Haggadah People of the Book is not a page turner, a suspense novel, or an adventure story. Author Brooks has taken what little is known about the Sarajevo Haggadah, with a focus on a few tiny artifacts evidently left behind, inadvertently, by some of the people who handled it in the past. The ...
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• Top Chef: The Quiver of a 17th Century Courtesan’s Inner Thigh

  
  Poptimal.com — Authority: 532
  After last week’s fun Top Chef Reunion dinner , with its gathering of favorites (and favorites we love to hate) from previous seasons, this week seems a little bit of a downer. Can we just eliminate Robin and Eli already? And as much as I don’t want to see it, as she’s always been a favorite, let’s get on ...
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• Anti Aging Natural Supplement Facts That You Must Know

  
  Weight Loss Surgery — Authority: 131
  The wonderful thing about selecting anti aging natural supplement over those additions that contain too many chemicals is the previous sort of additions have been used from very traditional times and with good results too. From medieval times to the present there have been various different kinds of anti aging natural ...
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• Name of the Day: Robin

  
  Appellation Mountain — Authority: 425
  He brings to mind birds, a comic book sidekick and a bear. Thanks to Bewildertrix and H. for suggesting Robin as Name of the Day. Robin started out as a diminutive for Robert , in Norman England.  Robert remains a classic today, but at #49, has fallen from his former #1 status. Scholars disagree if Sherwood ...
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• Suffering for my art...

  
  Gina-B Silkwork, Passementerie & Costume Accessories — Authority: 103
  For the first time in many months Ive been doing quite alot of fingerloop braids. All with fine silk and three of them nearly 2 meters long (thanks to my hubby for helping!). I enjoy doing it; I can get a good rythm going, but as I havent done them in such a long time I am now suffering! (horrid picture follows) ...
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• Clerical ‘Knights’

  
  War and Game — Authority: 135
  Bishop supports King!The vacancy of a legitimate central temporal power prompted the Church to fill the vacuum and arrogate to itself some basic duties of government. The Church started preaching the Peace of God (Pax Dei ) in the hope of preserving peace and justice from the anarchic, bellicose counts emboldened by ...
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• When Was the American Civil War a Done Deal?

  
  World Affairs Board — Authority: 449
  Lee surrendered on 9 April 1865. Johnston surrendered on 3 May 1865. However, it was clear before then that it was only a matter of time until the North would win. At what point was it inevitable that the South could not win? Id date it to the re-election of Lincoln. Once he was secure in office with a veto proof ...
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• Can I see it in the daylight? New visualisation technology

  
  A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe — Authority: 119
  [Im sorry for the blank few days: there was some marking, I was ill, then there was a man wanting something written fast, then another, then a lecture to plan and write and oh yeah, paid work too. However, I am briefly caught up with blogs and this one has already had to be updated once in its draft state, so, have ye ...
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• "Swine Flu", Fear, and the Middle Ages

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 524
  "Never confuse movement with action." - Ernest Hemingway [1] Tis the season of the flu, just like every year. But this year, theres something different. How different, you ask? Well, lets take a look at Ukraine: “ Ukraine is in the midst of what some might call swine-flu hysteria . The country is in virtual ...
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• The Monasteries of Meteora and my next novel

  
  Heroic Dreams - All Things Medieval — Authority: 113
  I have been working on my third novel (The Left Handed Sword) or a while now and there is this one section where the main character comes into this town called Speyer. On the outskirts of the town is a massive stone pinnacle called the finger of god. At the top of this pinnacle is a monastery. Its a critical idea in ...
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• Some Historic Banquets From The Past

  
  So You Want To Be a Banquet Manager... — Authority: 414
  In the year 1213, Englands King John (1166-1216) ordered 3,000 capons, 1,000 salted eels, 400 hogs, 100 pounds of almonds, and 24 casks of wine for his Christmas festivities. King Edward I of England in 1274 ordered his sheriffs to provide 278 bacon hogs, 450 porkers, 440 fat oxen, 430 sheep, and 22,600 hens and ...
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• Activities At The Renaissance Faire

  
  Medieval Fashion — Authority: 125
  If you have never visited a renaissance or medieval fair , you probably do not know what to expect. Fortunately the crowd and the staff are almost always welcome in these fair newcomers, and there is always plenty to do. In fact, there are very irritating to the average fair, easy to use. Before the gate, its a good ...
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