I was prepped and primed forNow is the Time, the telling of a medieval peasant’s revolt, which (not coincidentally) also sheds light on part of English’s struggle to survive to serve as a language of state and
The School for Invisible Boys by Shaun David Hutchinson – Hector first discovers his ability to turn invisible when his former best friend starts bullying. Then he discovers that he’s not the only invisible boy – and that not only are the rumors of a ghost haunting the school probably tru...
Far easier said than done, but inelastic systems guarantee failure, like medieval Christian attempts to fix “permissible” interest rates, aiming to avoid usury while still allowing for normal economic activity, and failing at both—because actual interest rates fluctuate with the money supply, like...
(8) Saxon Stories / The Last Kingdom. Bernard Cornwell’s Uhtred books have provided some of my favorite reading over the years, bringing Cornwell’s distinctive humor and gift for narration to plots brimming with medieval detail and politics. The series — which I only bothered with the firs...
(8) Saxon Stories / The Last Kingdom. Bernard Cornwell’s Uhtred books have provided some of my favorite reading over the years, bringing Cornwell’s distinctive humor and gift for narration to plots brimming with medieval detail and politics. The series — which I only bothered with the firs...
Bruce Campbell reprises his iconic role as chainsaw-wielding Ash in this bombastic follow-up that sees him transported to medieval times to battle hordes of undead creatures. Filled with campy special effects and slapstick humor, the film embraces its B-movie roots while delivering a rollicking g...
A "gauntlet" is, curiously, a glove used in medieval times, and is almost always never used today except in this expression. Will loses his job as a janitor, but at a local bar for Harvard students, he shows who is smart enough to get the girl... ...
And crucially for the development and later nature of the city, the glaciers left a long tail in the eastern lee of the Castle Rock, the tail on which David I’s medieval town would be built.” These cliffs and ravines made it hard for the “precipitous” city to expand outwards in ...
dancing with elk horns or just chilling out in the recliner in front of the television watching the modern incarnation of medieval joisting known as American style football (lady fairs on the sidelines, young men on the field of battle dressed in plastic armor trying to beat each other’s he...
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