August 18, 2010 | Posted by Mark
From Canto I of Dante’s Inferno: Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. These are the opening lines to Dante’s great poem, and probably the most famous poem of the Middle Ages. What better way to start [...]
Categories: Medieval Literature, Poetry | 
Tags: Dante Alighieri, God, Literature, Medieval, Middle Ages, Poetry | 
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August 11, 2010 | Posted by Mark
I blogged about the fantastic Pase Domesday project yesterday, which is an online reference tool to access data about people and places from the Domesday Book. What I should have mentioned as well is what seems to not be available from Pase Domesday, which is all the detail of what customs and fees are owed [...]
Categories: Medieval History | Tags: Domesday Book, England, History, Medieval, Middle Ages, Pase Domesday, Social Sciences, William the Conqueror | View Comments
August 10, 2010 | Posted by Mark
We seem to have a Norman theme today! You can now search the Domesday Book online thanks to the PASE Domesday project run by King’s College, London and the University of Cambridge. Here’s a sample output for the town where I grew up (click on the image to see it in detail): You can also [...]
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January 31, 2010 | Posted by Mark
I have been working through some ideas of how to portray hell in my novel Hell has its Demons. If you read the synopsis of the story you’ll have noticed that it ends with a journey by some of the main characters into hell itself. As the story is set in the middle ages there is [...]
Categories: Demons, Hell has its demons | Tags: Add new tag, Christianity, Dante Alighieri, Demon, God, Hell, Medieval, Peter Lombard, Satan | View Comments
