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The Newsletter for the Medieval History Site at the Mining Co. Vol. I, No.10 September 15, 1998

This Week's Feature

What Made Charles So Great?

A closer look at the first "Holy Roman Emperor" and what he achieved that made future generations call him great.

 

Welcome!

I'd like to extend a special welcome to the record number of new subscribers who signed up in the past three weeks. Since I've been offline, our readership has increased more than 25%!

Maybe I should take time away from the site more often.... just kidding

 

Announcement

In order to provide more regular updates and continue to add to our resource library of net links, features will be added and the newsletter sent out biweekly instead of every week. Changes will occasionally be made to the site in the off weeks, and the front page will be altered to reflect this; so so don't forget to stop by the site to see what's new.

 

 

Medieval Minutia

Bocaccio wrote the first biography of Dante Aligheri and copied out the entire Divine Comedy by hand as a gift for Petrarch.

Source: A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman

To find out more about great medieval and Renaissance literature, visit our page of Online Libraries and Text Collection net links.

You can purchase A Distant Mirror and other good books about medieval history at our online bookstore (brought to you in association with Amazon.com).

 

 

Site Update

New links have been added to the following net link categories:

Archaeology

Power to the Pictish ladies (also added to Britain and Women)

Show me an industry, show me a town

 

Art

Spanish Art and Architecture (also added to Architecture and Iberia)

A Visual Tour through Late Antiquity

 

The Crusades

Dark Legacy (from your Mining Co. Guide)

Pope Urban II Calls for a Crusade

Route of the First Crusade

 

Knightly Orders

Early Irish Knighthood... (also added to Britain)

Glossary of Terms

Knighthood in the Orthodox Church

The Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus

 

The Knights Hospitaller

The Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Great Britain

 

Medieval Britain

Bede's Life

Conflagration: The Peasants' Revolt (from your Mining Co. Guide)

Images of Sites from the Medieval Celtic Fringe

O'Conor Don

 

Medieval Europe

Imperium

 

Medieval France

Radegund of Poitiers (also added to Women)

 

Medieval Italy

The Royal House of Savoy

 

Religion

John Calvin

The cult of the saints in the barbarian kingdoms...

 

 

Back-in-Time Survey Revisited

We've got a new response to the Survey. Come see what Elin has to say about traveling into the past.

Don't forget, the Back-in-Time Survey is open indefinitely. If you haven't taken your trip into the past, please feel free to post a response on the bulletin board, email me, or fill in the form at the end of our feature.

 

Medieval History Quizlet

This week, instead of a poll, I've got a one-question-quiz for you. Do you know the answer? Come to our quizlet page and see the results of the last question and the new quizlet.

 

 

 

Quote of the Knight If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.       Francis Bacon

 

I hope you enjoyed this edition of the Knightly Newsletter. Have a great week, and thank you for visiting the site !

Melissa Snell
Your Medieval History Guide at the Mining Co.

 

 

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