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Medieval Robots: Past Perfect: King Hereafter
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Medieval is the new modern. Monday, August 8, 2011. Past Perfect: King Hereafter. I haven't posted anything new for a while because I've been living in genre fiction. This world has fierce creatures and fiercer warriors; beautiful, intelligent, cunning women; seers and mystics; religious conflict between an established northern religion and a more recent transplant from the East; and a web of shifting and occult political alliances that stretch over vast geographic terrain. Is about the historical figure.
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Medieval Robots: Out of Time: Outlander's Medievalism
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Medieval is the new modern. Thursday, April 2, 2015. Out of Time: Outlander's Medievalism. Outlander,"* the captivating historical fantasy/romance based on the series by Diana Gabaldon, has a lot going on: a charismatic, capable hero. A gorgeous love interest. And something else: medievalism. Later, Claire steps through the standing stones at Craigh na Dun and is thrown back in time, to 1743. Y the end of the episode, she ends up at the same castle- Castle Leoch- where she and Frank had their intimate in...
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Medieval Robots: July 2015
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Medieval is the new modern. Sunday, July 12, 2015. Six And A Half Ways of Being Undead in "Game of Thrones". Is Jon Snow really dead? That is the question that has been on everyone's minds. Since the finale of Season 5 (or since the end of ADWD)- including President Obama's. D B Weiss has said that Snow won't be back- "Dead is dead,". Quoth he. But of course, the learned reader knows that this phrase appears on the first page. Of A Game of Thrones. What proof have we? 2) Mirri Maz Duur's. Of course we do...
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Medieval Robots: November 2013
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Medieval is the new modern. Wednesday, November 27, 2013. I recently started learning something new:. I never played it, I didn't know anyone who played it, and my total exposure to chess came from books and films in which people played chess (see: Searching for Bobby Fischer. Especially Pawn in Frankincense. When did this start to happen? Posted by E. R. Truitt. Friday, November 8, 2013. Robots from Days Gone By. Amazing automata from ye olden times have been cropping up everywhere recently! And a few o...
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Medieval Robots: December 2014
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Medieval is the new modern. Saturday, December 13, 2014. Forthcoming from the Press of the University of Pennsylvania. Mechanism, Magic, Nature and Art. June 2015, in print and digital format. Posted by E. R. Truitt. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Medieval Robots: The Book. Preternatural Machines," Aeon. Mysticism and Machines," History Today. Subscribe in a reader. Plague Dialogues: Monica Green and Boris Schmid on Plague Phylogeny (II). A Letter from James Ferguson. I Blame The Patriarchy. Generation to R...
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Medieval Robots: August 2014
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Medieval is the new modern. Thursday, August 14, 2014. The Dung Heap of History. The past is shit. This is what I learned on a recent trip to the UK. I happened to be in York during the filming of the pilot of "Knifeman,". A new AMC drama about a controversial 18th-century medical figure. The production team used the Shambles (the oldest street in York) and the area around the Minster to stand in for Georgian London. Someone better tell the people making "The Knick". Concludes by passing a man straining ...
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Medieval Robots: January 2014
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Medieval is the new modern. Monday, January 27, 2014. Do People Even Like Robots? It's nice to be able to invite a guest to your wedding and know that he or she isn't going to make a terrible speech. Or t hrow up on the wedding cake. On the other hand, it's also nice to be able to invite a guest to your wedding and know that he or she isn't going to make the other guests feel awkward and uncomfortable, merely by showing up. 8220;I was unconsciously turning my head to talk to people and realizing I’...
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Medieval Robots: Six And A Half Ways of Being Undead in "Game of Thrones"
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Medieval is the new modern. Sunday, July 12, 2015. Six And A Half Ways of Being Undead in "Game of Thrones". Is Jon Snow really dead? That is the question that has been on everyone's minds. Since the finale of Season 5 (or since the end of ADWD)- including President Obama's. D B Weiss has said that Snow won't be back- "Dead is dead,". Quoth he. But of course, the learned reader knows that this phrase appears on the first page. Of A Game of Thrones. What proof have we? 2) Mirri Maz Duur's. Plague Dialogue...
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Research Fragments: February 2015
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Jonathan Green's research notes on early printing and the language, literature, and culture of medieval and early modern Germany. Friday, February 20, 2015. How atypical are the editions in Eric White's census of print runs? In the introduction to his census of known fifteenth-century print runs. Eric White cautions against taking his results as representative for all incunables:. Comparison of format distribution. Comparison of average leaf count by format. Friday, February 13, 2015. The graph below sho...
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Medieval Robots: Vikings: They Do Things Differently There
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Medieval is the new modern. Monday, February 23, 2015. Vikings: They Do Things Differently There. Viking graffiti found in Orkney. The History Channel's scripted drama, just returned. For its third season. Many. Have written about the many historical antecedents. The show is, and the political ideology. In much of its programming. Charlemagne and Offa are name-checked, and everyone is dirty. Except for the enlightened King Ecgbert, who bathes regularly). Account of his time among the Rus, sagas, annals.
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