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Hark! A Vagrant, on Courtly Love
Hark! A Vagrant is a series of mostly one-off comics by Kate Beaton, often focused on history topics. Today I’d like to highlight one of her comics, on courtly love. I took a class on medieval history...
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Dishes from around the world, grilled scorpion
This post was inspired by an image at National Geographic: Borrowed from images.nationalgeographic.com; Photo by Douglas Bakshian. This image was taken in Beijing (China). I’m not typically a very...
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Yurts (Ger)
So I was at a campground this week, and we ended up staying in a yurt. A yurt is kind of like a large hut; in Mongolia, I believe it’s called a ger. Historically, they were used as housing by nomads in...
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Black Ships, a retelling of the Aeneid
Borrowed from ebooks-imgs.connect.com This is the story of Gull, an oracle that sails with Aeneas and the refuges of the fallen city of Troy, to find a new homeland. It retells Virgil’s Aeneid–for...
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Tam Lin and Mediaeval Baebes
Tam Lin is a Scottish ballad, the titular character being a man who had been taken by the fairy Queen. The story follows Janet, a young woman who happens upon Tam Lin and rescues him from the fairies....
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“Greek Mythology” (?) in The Immortals
Borrowed from moviefanatic.com I do have a soft spot for ancient mythological fiction, which is why I chose to see this movie. I’m not all that familiar with Theseus’ story, either, and I’m by no means...
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Putting Words in People’s Mouths, Apocalypse 2012
Maybe I should have posted this sooner, but I’m doing it now because now is the great concentration of Mayan doomsday prophesy posts and news articles on the internet. So in the interest of fairness, I...
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PHD Comics, Illustrated 2 Minute Thesis
Okay, so it’s not science, but it’s related to grad school and it’s really cool. This is an illustrated two minute explanation of a graduate student’s thesis project, dealing with language and culture...
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Tea ceremonies, rice paper, and flower arrangements; this year’s Sakura...
Once again, I went to the Sakura Matsuri festival at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. One of the first things we did was go to a traditional Japanese flower arrangement demonstration–there are different...
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Media Roundup: Endings, and also some Medieval Combat
This week’s post is going to be a little bit more of a roundup, rather than focused on one thing. Innkeeper Chronicles (web serial), Once Upon a Time (TV), and The History Channel: Great Battles...
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