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History Book Review: Ritual, Gender and Narrative in Late Medieval Italy:...
This is a deep dive into the pictorial program at the Baptistery of Padua, redone in the 1370s, and the woman who commissioned it, Fina Buzzacarini. The book has 6 chapters plus an introduction and...
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Video: Hieronymus Bosch Butt Music
In a segment on hell in Hieronymus Bosch's painting of THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, there's a man with music notation on his butt. This has been transcribed and played by various artists. The...
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Book Review: Provenance by Ann Leckie
Pros: tons of politics!, several interesting alien species, excellent world-building Cons: heavily character driven, so if you don’t like Ingray the book may be a slogIngray Aughskold has hatched a...
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Popin' Cook'n Tea Party Cakes
This is probably the last Kracie Popin' Cook'n kit I'm going to do. While they can be fun to put together, they're pretty expensive, and some of them - like this kit - don't end up tasting that...
View ArticleMedieval History Research Websites
My apologies for the lack of posts recently. I’ve been neck deep in putting together my next research trip and it’s taking all of my time. I’ve been reading (or skimming depending on time &...
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Shout-Out: How to Be Remembered by Michael Thompson
A man who can never be remembered.A journey he'll never forget. On an ordinary night in an ordinary year, Tommy Llewellyn's doting parents wake in a home without toys and diapers, without photos of...
View ArticleVideo: The Warp Zone's A.I. Written sketch
The Warp Zone have done a great sketch, partially written by A.I. (Chat GPT) that really gets to the heart of our fears about artificial intelligence.
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History Book Review: Magic in the Roman World: Pagans, Jews and Christians by...
The book focuses on how magic was viewed in the first Christian centuries. It has 6 chapters in addition to an introduction and conclusion. They are: 1) Greco-Roman, Christian and Jewish concepts of...
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Shout-Out: Charming by Jade Linwood
Brave, Resourceful, Deceitful, Double-Crossing... Charming.Prince Jean-Marc Charming Arundel, known to friends and enemies alike as "Prince Charming," is handsome, well-mannered, brave, a peerless...
View ArticleBlog Vacation
As I'm taking a research trip to Italy, I'll be away from my home computer and therefore won't be blogging for a month or so. It's a fairly comprehensive trip, with a lot of stops and a lot of medieval...
View ArticleBooks Received in October 2023
I'm back from vacation and have requested 2 books that come out next year for review. Many thanks to the publishers who approved my requests.Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire - The next...
View ArticleI'm back from Vacation
I spent a month in Italy on a research trip, taking photos of lots of churches, baptistries, hill towns and more. Jetlag's been hard to kick, so it's taking me longer to get back up to speed than I'd...
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The Escapist video team starts Second Wind
I'm not sure what my audience here is interested in, so I'm basically posting the kinds of things that interest me. I've been watching the video game youtube channel The Escapist for years. I remember...
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Italy trip photos
My recent trip to Italy was done to research as many medieval (and older) sites as I could hit. I saw a number of baptistries, cathedrals, churches, museums, and old cities. It was amazing.I've made an...
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Movie Review: Oxygen
Directed by: Alexandre Aja, 2021IMDb listingA woman wakes up in a medical cryogenic unit with no memory of how she got there and her oxygen supply quickly running out.This is a pretty good French...
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Movie Review: Soldier
Directed by: Paul W. S. Anderson, 1998IMDb listingTodd 3456 is a soldier, trained from birth. When a squad of upgraded solders come of age, the older generation are retired. After a test between the...
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Books Received in December 2023
Many thanks to Kensington Books for an eARC of Escape Velocity.Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo - I love murder mysteries in space, and this one adds in the class disparity that makes it topical. Out...
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Book Review: Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire
After losing years of her life in the Land Where the Lost Things Go, Antsy Ricci has found her way to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. But a school filled with kids trying to find their Doors...
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TV Show Review: Severance Season 1
Created by Dan Erikson (2022)IMDb ListingLumen Industries has discovered how to surgically separate the brain. Their workers have no memories of what they do on the job, and their ‘innies’ have no life...
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