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Happy Europeans ignore the web! I bet they’re happier for it… I would like to see a survey that analyses how much internet browsing is due to time spent bored at work/studying/commuting etc.

I can’t understand why people writing blogs don’t have feeds or a way of staying up to date. Nowadays unless a site has a feed I am very likely to ignore it – after all how can you be prompted to visit it for new information? If you’re going to blog at least have some [...]

I have added a new page to my Stupor Mundi website. The page provides some information on the medieval alliterative poem The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne, which was a very popular poem in the late 14th century.

Fantasy Magazine have made available a chapter from the class The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley.  Well worth checking out. In particular I like the way Fantasy Magazine has laid out the page and added some nice illustrations. The font and character size is just right for screen reading as well. 

I have now published a page for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight at my Stupor Mundi website.  Here’s my synopsis of the poem: “The poem starts at Christmas at the court of King Arthur. A visitor comes to the hall, the Green Knight, and offers to let anyone strike him who will suffer a [...]

I’ve gathered what information I can so far about this key battle during the reign of Frederick II. There seems to be little concrete source material for the siege of Parma in 1247-1248 unfortunately.

Information on Michael Scots writings has been updated at my Stupor Mundi website.

Today I have put up a page for Castel Fiorentina. This is where Frederick II died on 13 December 1250. So far the page contains some useful links, photos and an interesting video of the site of the castle. Incoming search terms:castel fiorentinacastel fiorantinaCastel fiorientinacastell fiorentina

I have just uploaded a new page on Michael Scot at my Stupor Mundi website. The page contains details of what we know of Michael Scot’s life – not the myth that surrounds him! Michael Scot was the court astrologer of Frederick II until 1236. He gained the label of magician as well…

Cool vid of the mission that will get soil samples from Mars and bring them back!