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Click here to view the embedded video. I was sharing some historical background on England from 1066-1485 with my students, and I wanted to show them the video, but I hadn’t thought about the possiblity of embedding it, so I wound up switching from PowerPoint to the video and back.  Not a huge hassle,

Harold the King by Helen Hollick Paperback: 704 pages Publisher: BookForce UK Ltd; 2nd edition (February 6, 2007) Average Customer Review on Amazon: 5 stars (8 reviews) Product Description: This story is set in the England of 1044. As dawn breaks over a summer’s landscape, Harold Godwinesson is riding east.

On this date, October 6th, in medieval history: 877 - Death of Charles “the Bald,” king of the West Frankish Kingdom 891 - Formosus elected as Pope 1101 - Death of St. Bruno, confessor, ecclesiastical writer, and founder of the Carthusian Order

The Lions of al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay Paperback: 528 pages Publisher: Eos (June 2005) Average Customer Review on Amazon: 4.5 stars (108 Reviews) Editorial Review from Publishers Weekly: Canadian attorney Kay has eschewed the courtroom thriller for fantasy (A Song for Arbonne, etc.).

Chancel [chan-suhl, chahn-] Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin cancellus lattice, from Latin cancelli; from the latticework enclosing it Chancel: The eastern end of a church Choir (Quire) (kwir) Etymology: Middle English quer, from Anglo-French queor, from Medieval Latin chorus, from Latin, chorus Choir: The area of the church between a transept and main apse.

The Crusades Encyclopedia has a nice collection of medieval primary source texts dating back to the time of the Crusades. Such texts include letters and manuscripts, such as: letter of Alexius I Comnenus, the Siege of Tyre according to Ibn Al Qalanisi, the Franks’ capture of Antioch, the Franks’ conquest Jerusalem, and Pope Urban II’s speech at Clermont.

Today I arrived for a quick visit to Gotland, an island in the Baltic Sea, and the medieval city Visby. Though here on business that not is connected with archaeology I was pleased to be greeted by a picture stone at the airport.   This was found in the church Stenkyrka and is and is dated to ca 700 AD.

On this date, October 1st, in medieval history: 1207 - Birth of Henry III, King of England 1273 - Rudolf of Hapsburg crowned Holy Roman Emperor

OT MEDIEVAL takes us on a tour of Text on the Margins and once again reminding us Pretty deep for a bunch of illiterate clods waiting on the printing press to give them their humanity, eh?

The Walking Drum by Louis L’Amour Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: Bantam (April 1, 1985) Average Customer Review on Amazon: 4.5 stars (81 reviews) Product Description: Here is an historic adventure of extraordinary power waiting to sweep you away to exotic lands as one of the most popular writers of our time conquers new storytelling worlds.