Posts belonging to Category 'Stupor Mundi'
March 31, 2010 | Posted by Mark
The main character of The Easy River to Success is a government minister by the name of Benetus. This character is a Machiavellian type who has used cunning, his way with words and also a bit of magic to gain prominence at court. I really wanted to steer away from the cliche of having a warrior or [...]
Categories: Piero della Vigna, Stupor Mundi, Writing | 
Tags: Fantasy, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, Machiavellianism, Middle Ages, Pope, Theocracy | 
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March 25, 2010 | Posted by Mark
The first two chapters of my Stupor Mundi novel are now available for critiquing on Critters and OWW if anyone is interested in taking a look. In total they come to 4,000 words. I have written about 17,000 words so far, but most of this is in early draft format.
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March 4, 2010 | Posted by Mark
If you read my blog on a regular basis you might have noticed a number of posts about Frederick II appearing. What does it mean? Well a while ago I was working on a project about Frederick II called Stupor Mundi. I recently decided that I would have another go at this novel, but not [...]
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February 21, 2010 | Posted by Mark
It seems that some people are still fighting the propaganda battle that once raged between Innocent IV and Frederick II, for instance this article about Saint Rose of Viterbo. Little twelve year old Rose preached against the Imperial occupation of the Papal city of Viterbo. She even apparently predicted the death of Frederick II and [...]
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February 19, 2010 | Posted by Mark
I came across this very good biographical video of Frederick II on Youtube. It features lots of good images, many of which I hadn’t seen before. The sound is music, so you can watch it without the music on and read the captions to get the story of Frederick II’s life.
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February 18, 2010 | Posted by Mark
How strange is this! I just came across a Facebook page for Frederick II! Well I am now a fan. Some nice photos I hadn’t seen before on the page and he has 383 fans, which is probably more than he had in his lifetime! Unfortunately Facebook doesn’t allow you to indicate whether you think [...]
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February 16, 2010 | Posted by Mark
I came across an illustration of pfennigs minted at Ravensburg sometime between 1215 and 1250 bearing the image of Frederick II at Money Museum – it looks like a fascinating site for the medievalist.
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January 21, 2009 | Posted by Mark
Been awhile since I have posted unfortunately due to illness over the last week or so. Progress on the writing has therefore been very slow. However, I did manage to read through Dante’s De Vulgari Eloquentia. Quite useful on his opinion of Frederick’s court and also all the differences in dialects in Italy, plus an [...]
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January 13, 2009 | Posted by Mark
I’m considering turning my translation of Huillard-Breholles into a pdf e-book that can be downloaded from the Stupor Mundi website. The idea is that I would be able to share the work I have done, but also protect my copyright and not have the work passed off on other people’s sites and possibly financially exploited [...]
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