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. Louis L’Amour has […]
Ambulatory
[am-byuh-luh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]
: a covered passage behind the altar, linking it with chapels at the east end of the church
*term definition retrieved from www.britainexpress.com, glossary of medieval church architecture
The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place on September 25th, 1066, between Harold Godwinson (Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England) and his brother Tostig, who had allied himself with Harald Sigurdsson (”Hardrada”), the King of Norway. This battle proceeded the famous Battle of Hastings between Duke William of Normandy and King Harold, and […]
This is another pre-medieval history post, but Stonehenge is a subject that fascinates me, and an architectural masterpiece that no doubt captured the medieval mind as it does the mind of man today.
This comes from the BBC News:
Archaeologists have pinpointed the construction of Stonehenge to 2300BC - a key step to discovering how and why […]
On this date, September 24th, in medieval history:
768 - Death of Pepin II (”The Short”), father of Charlemagne
787 - Second Council of Nicea reconvenes, after being interrupted earlier (in August) by soldiers still loyal to the memory of Emperor Constantine V
1143 - Death of Pope Innocent II
1180 - Alexius II Comnenus becomes Emperor of Byzantium […]
The Runes of the Earth
Featured Artist: Michael Whelan
Since 1980, Michael Whelan has been one of the world’s premier fantasy and science fiction artists. He is currently working full time on his fine art paintings, but in the past three decades he has created more than 350 book and album covers for authors and artists like […]
The Edge of Light by Joan Wolf
Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Onyx (January 7, 1992)
Average Customer Review on Amazon: 5 stars (5 customer reviews)
Editorial Review from Publishers Weekly:
At the outset of this powerfully wrought historical romance set in ninth-century Britain, Wolf lists her Anglo-Saxon characters, at least half of whose names begin with “Ethel.” It’s an aid […]
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On this date, September 22nd, in medieval history:
530 - Death of Pope St. Felix IV
530 - Boniface II and Dioscorus both consecrated as pope simultaneously, resulting in a schism in the Catholic church
1241 - Death of Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician
Freehold
[free-hohld]
An estate for life or more; a property interest longer than a lease for a period of years; an inheritable estate. (Hogue, Arthur R. Origins of the Common Law, 256)
A tenure of real property by which an estate in fee simple or fee tail or an estate for life is held ; also : […]