Month: March 2016
Gawainsmum
- Hospitallers, for a change July 20, 2017Cardiff PhD candidate Nick McDermott was with the Cardiff contingent at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo last May. Medieval Warfare Magazine liked his paper on Hospitaller slaves: https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/mwblog/hospitallers-used-slaves/gawainsmum
- The Everyday Life of the Templars July 14, 2017F040266 The Everyday Life of the Templars Press Release … is due out on 27 July (less than two weeks from now). Update 20 July: in fact Amazon states that it’s due out on 20 July, but it’s not out … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- Death of ‘Documents relating to the Military Orders’ July 5, 2017It was warned of long ago, and now it has come: the ‘Documents relating to the Military Orders’ are no longer available online. Cardiff University has closed down the links. However, here comes Google cache to the rescue! All the … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- And the index … June 10, 2017Those awaiting the book will be pleased to read that the index was completed and sent back last week. As I had to do the index in the middle of exam marking there are probably some ‘issues’ with it. But … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- Kalamazoo 2017 May 22, 2017Cardiff University’s School of History, Archaeology and Religion sponsored a very successful session at the 52nd Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo (http://www.wmich.edu/medievalcongress) earlier this month. Twenty scholars turned out early on Sunday morning to hear papers on various aspects of … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- Proofs May 22, 2017The proofs of the book are here. I’m checking through them.gawainsmum
- Blogger’s news April 28, 2017The latest news from Gawain’s Mum is that I’ve been elected to be a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (see https://www.learnedsociety.wales/ ) There’s a list of the new members at: https://www.learnedsociety.wales/newfellows17/ So I can now add FLSW to … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- Everyone loves a mystery … March 9, 2017… but let’s remember that most of them are fiction. Over the last two days, I’ve been asked to comment on news reports about a man-made network of caves at Caynton, near Beckbury in Shropshire. Because the origin of these … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- The book has a cover February 21, 2017http://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/knightstemplarsestates/2017/02/21/cover-and-blurb/gawainsmum
- And the publisher has the book January 17, 2017Fonthill Media has sent me an acceptance record for The Everyday Life of the Templars. So I assume they are reasonably happy with it … … of course there is no cover for the book yet, so in the meantime … Continue reading →gawainsmum
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