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• November 15th: St. Albertus Magnus, O.P.

  
  V for Victory! — Authority: 463
  Today is the feast of St. Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great), Dominican priest, bishop, and one of three Dominican Doctors of the Church. Albertus was a man of wide and deep learning, of whom it might perhaps have been truly said that he knew everything there was to know -- at least everything there was to know in ...
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• Ran-ki-Vav (Queens Stepwell) | Patan | Gujarat | India

  
  SkyscraperCity — Authority: 175
  It is generally assumed that it was built in the memory of Bhimdev I (A.D. 1022 to 1063) son of Mularaja, the founder of the Solanki dynasty of Anahilwada Pattan in about 1050 A.D. by his widowed queen Udayamati. Rani-Ki Vav. It was probably completed by Udayamati and Karandev I after his death. A reference to ...
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• Blogging the Middle Ages: Muhlbergers Early History

  
  In the Middle — Authority: 494
  by Steve Muhlberger [#8 in our series of blog histories ] Blogging the Middle Ages and the whole beautiful blue world and spaces beyond My involvement with the Internet goes back to the early 90s, soon after I obtained my first permanent job – at Nipissing University, where I ...
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• Fencing Gear Through the Ages

  
  Drop Fat! — Authority: 146
  Jaw-dropping swordplay and charged up entertainment are not just found in the latest pirate epic on the silver screen. The sport of fencing has all the excitement of swordplay, without the messy results! The use of swords in battle goes back to the ancient eras, and by the middle ages, it had become particularly ...
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• Blogging the Middle Ages: The Ruminate, or iSwain

  
  In the Middle — Authority: 494
  by Larry Swain [#6 in our series of blog histories ] I think in the following that my choice of a blog title will become very clear.  Back in the day as I transitioned from working stiff: unwilling computer guy to graduate level medievalist in late 1998-1999, I became aware of LiveJournal and other such ...
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• Police Order Dog to Bite Wrong Man

  
  Great Product Direct — Authority: 157
  Filed under: Dogs , Pets in the News , Hero Pets Flickr/Svadilfari On Nov. 9, a police dog bit a man who was trying to defend his home from a would-be burglar.
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• Blogging the Middle Ages: Quod She

  
  In the Middle — Authority: 494
  by Dr. Virago [ For background on this archival project, read the posts here , here , here , here, here , and here ] The History of Quod She I began my blog in September, 2005, two years after starting my first tenure track job, but my entry into the blogospheres precedes that ...
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• 1000 words today!

  
  Muhlberger's Early History — Authority: 130
  Thats 1000 words on the book I promised to write during this sabbatical! I feel that Im finally getting my teeth into it.
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• Arundel Castle

  
  Steven Till — Authority: 120
  Built by Roger de Montgomery on the site of an existing Saxon fortification, the castle of Arundel overlooks the River Arun in West Sussex. William the Conqueror granted Roger de Montgomery the land and charged him with the task of defending the southern coast of England from attack. The oldest part of the castle is ...
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• Blogging the Middle Ages: Blogenspiel

  
  In the Middle — Authority: 494
  by Another Damned Medievalist (ADM) [for background on this archival project, read the posts here , here , here and here ]  I started Blogenspiel at the urging of The Cranky Professor who I met the day I arrived for grad school and have been friends with ever since. We’d sort of fallen out of touch ...
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• Irish Names from the Middle Ages – Dubchoblaig, Flaithbertach, Mór, Nuadu

  
  Nancy's Baby Names — Authority: 426
  I’ve always thought of mór (as in an Gorta Mór ) simply as an Irish vocabulary word. So I was a bit surprised to learn that it was once used as a female name: In the late middle ages, the name Mór (meaning great or big) was very popular for a woman. Although given the 21st­ century obsession with being ...
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• Another Charny question?

  
  Muhlberger's Early History — Authority: 130
  In my research and translation of Charny questions, I have been working mainly from the Michael Taylor (Chapel Hill) edition. Recently Ive been looking more closely at the Belgian edition by Rossbach. Not only does the Rossbach edition have an answer to one of the questions, it has a question unknown to Taylor! If it ...
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• Blogging the Middle Ages: Modern Medieval

  
  In the Middle — Authority: 494
  by Matthew Gabriele [for background on this archival project, read the posts here and here and here ]  Modern Medieval began at the end of May 2007 , mostly because I had something to say and I needed at least the illusion that there was someone out there who would listen to me. In large part, the things ...
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• Perfume Use in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: myths and truths

  
  Perfume Shrine — Authority: 426
  It is not unusual to hear the Middle Ages considered as the age of the Great Unwashed or to think that Western Europe had by that time ceased to partake of the pleasures of perfume and aromatic components used for reasons of well-being, aesthetic advancement and spiritual therapy completely. Nothing is further from ...
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• The economics of Jesus

  
  Castle of Nutshells — Authority: 459
  I came across this very old post on Jesus and macroeconomics : No servant can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. Luke 16: 13 Jesus probably didn’t know much about macroeconomics, even though he was God. But ...
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• The Fire of The Night (On Witch Hunting)

  
  Authspot — Authority: 540
  The fire of the night… Heavily was it raining that night, But the fire rose, higher As if the sky it could ignite And limitless sorrows it could acquire ‘The fire brings us might’ But the deceitful fire was a liar Burning innocent souls was a gratification Hypocritical consolation… Heavily was it raining, ...
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• Articles of Interest

  
  Izgad — Authority: 120
  Melanie talks about the recent protest against Autism Speaks at Ohio State. I was involved in the early stages of this event. I really miss the people over at our ASAN chapter. Also on the Asperger front, Claudia Wallis writes in the New York Times about the strong possibility of Asperger syndrome being removed from ...
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• Medieval History Term of the Week: Marcher Lords

  
  Steven Till — Authority: 120
  Marcher Lords 1) The name commonly given to Norman landholders on the Welsh border. (MEDIEV-L. Medieval Terms) 2) Lord of a border district, such as the boundaries of Wales and Scotland. (Gies, Joseph and Francis. Life in a Medieval Castle , 230) 3) A lord of a frontier territory as in Wales where he had ...
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• Dragons Have Been Unleashed in Dragon Age Origins

  
  Costume idea blog — Authority: 122
  Are you looking for a different costume to wear to your next party? Maybe the recent release of PS 3 game Dragon Age of Origins will offer you some perspective on a costume. Children’s stories have always been ripe with tales of mythical creatures such as Dragons and this new video game brings the concept back. ...
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• The Church in other universes

  
  KHdN - Kenneth Hynek (dot Net) — Authority: 435
  The notion of alternate universes (colloquially: “the multiverse”) is not a new one, though it has mostly been confined to the realm of speculative fiction…at least until recently. The multiverse concept has enjoyed more general recognition in the last few years, in its use by the New Atheists as an attempt to ...
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