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The Newsletter for the Medieval History Site at the Mining Co. Vol. II, No.1 January 10, 1999

This Week's Feature

Mad about the Bard

Your Guide's review of the new film, Shakespeare in Love.

 

 

Happy New Year!

A belated wish for a wonderful 1999 goes out to all subscribers to the Knightly Newsletter and visitors to the Medieval History site. I'm pleased to see traffic rising, and I hope that means that the site has been of some use to students and history buffs alike. I'm especially pleased to welcome more than 85 new subscribers! Please remember that whether you subscribe to the Knightly Newsletter or are just passing through, you are welcome to email me with comments and questions.

I look forward to hearing from you!

 

Liz Quiz Correction

In question 9, I erroneously stated that Francis Drake commanded the Armada for Queen Elizabeth. In reality, Drake only commanded part of the force. The overall commander of the force was Charles Lord Howard of Effingham, the Lord Admiral (see The Armada by Garrett Mattingly, p. 198); but since this was such a relatively unknown individual, I thought I'd ask about Drake instead, and left out two very important words. That's what I get for trying to work at 4 am.

Thanks go to Annie Reasoner for catching this error almost immediately, and also to Dr. Douglas Bisson for catching it several weeks later. I only wish I could have made the correction sooner.

If you still haven't tried your hand at the Liz Quiz, check it out!

 

 

 

Medieval Minutia

Einhard, who was Charlemagne's secretary and the author of the Emperor's biography, was also an architect and a gifted worker in precious metals. He likely made the miniature triumphal arch in silver that he gave to monastery of St. Servais, where he was abbot.

Source: Life in Medieval Times by Marjorie Rowling

You can purchase Life in Medieval Times and other good books about medieval history at our online bookstore (brought to you in association with Amazon.com).

 

 

Site Update

Our directory of net links is undergoing reorganization. If you have any difficulty finding pages, please do not hesitate to let me know. And remember, our site is searchable! The pages have NOT disappeared, and you can always find them by using the search box available in the upper left-hand corner of every page.

Reorganization Notes

Our page of net links on Medieval Britain was growing extremely large, so I have divided it into separate pages, as follows:

General British History

Dark-Age Britain

Ireland

Scotland

Wales

An index of these five pages can be found at "Medieval Britain."

In an attempt to reduce the unwieldy index of net link categories to a more manageable size, I have begun to combine some pages into subsections. However, the URLs for these pages remain the same. The use of subsections means an extra click from our index, and for that I apologize; but the reduction of the net link list will subsequently reduce the paging required to find what you're looking for. These combinations are only the beginning, and I hope to provide you with a lean, mean, yet useful index as the months ahead progress.

You can find Asia, India, Japan, Russia and the Mongols in our Medieval Asia section.

Our pages on Byzantine Studies, Europe, France, Iberia, Italy, and Vikings and Scandinavian History are accessible from our Medieval Europe section.

 

New Links

Even as I try to reduce our index, I've added yet another page of net links. Launch your investigations into Shakespeare from our page of net links.

New links have also been added to the following pages:

Archaeology

Eriswell Cemetery Excavation

 

Architecture

European Architecture of the 15th Century

Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture

Gothic Architecture

Hagia Sophia: Eternal Monument (also added to Byzantine Studies)

Medieval Fortifications (also added to France)

Palladio's Italian Villas (also added to Italy)

Renaissance Architecture: Palace of Fontainebleau

Romanesque Architecture

Seventeenth-Century Architecture

Cathedrals and Churches in France.

 

Armor & Weaponry

Medieval Weapons and Armor

 

Art

The International Center of Medieval Art (also added to Organizations)

 

Book, Manuscript and Printing History

The Technology and Culture of the Manuscript Book

 

Byzantine Studies

Emperors of the Byzantine Empire (also added to Timelines)

 

The Crusades

The Fall of Jerusalem: Two Accounts

 

Journals

Essays in Medieval Studies

Shakespeare Magazine

 

Language

First Steps into Old English

 

Living History

Shakespeare's Globe

Conquest

Milites Normannorum

Normans of the Sun

 

Dark-Age Britain

Early Anglo-Saxon Suffolk

The Ornithology of Anglo-Saxon England

(also added to Science & Technology)

 

Medieval Europe: General

Albanian History Chronology of Events

Dorestad

Gjergj Kastrioti [Skenderbeu]

 

Medieval Italy

Norman Dominated Southern Italy

 

Military History

Medieval Armies and Navies

 

The Mongols

The Path of Khan

World History Timeline: The Mongols (also added to Timelines)

 

On-Line Libraries and Text Collections

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

 

Organizations and Societies

?a Engliscan Gesi?as

The Renaissance Society of America (also added to Renaissance Studies)

 

Religion

The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas

 

Vikings and Scandinavian History

The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway

The Danish History

Dudo of St. Quentin's Gesta Normannorum (also added to France)

Medieval Scandinavia

Norse Games

OLDNORSENET (return)

Scientific American: The Viking Longship

The Search for Vinland

The Viking Answer Lady

 

 

Chat Difficulties

I'm extremely sorry to announce that I'm having difficulties with our chat room. These spring from the fact that I have a Macintosh computer, which has "known difficulties" with Java-based chat. I'm open to any and all suggestions for making chat work for all of us (with the exception of yours truly getting a Windoze machine). If you, too, have problems with Parachat, please let Mining Co. support staff know by filling in the Chat Support form, accessible from our main chat page.

In the meantime, I hope those of you who can access the chat room will continue to drop in and use it as your base of operations when discussing medieval topics. I will attempt to make it into the chat room on Mondays and Wednesdays at 7 pm Eastern, although my capabilities as administrator will be limited, and I hope you'll join me. Remember, you can find our chat room by clicking "chat" in the left-hand navigational menu on any page of the site.

 

 

 

Quote of the Knight The ultimate use of Shakespeare is to let him teach you to think too well, to whatever truth you can sustain without perishing. Harold Bloom

 

I hope you enjoyed this edition of the Knightly Newsletter. Be sure to email me with any comments or questions, and thanks for visiting the Medieval History site!

Melissa Snell
Your Medieval History Guide at the Mining Co.

 

 

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