in any sense of the word: https://gawainsmum.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/everyone-loves-a-mystery/
But the Templars did have lots of lovely chapels above ground. Blog post coming up soon.
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- Women-only carriages August 23, 2017Originally posted on Official Gawain Blog: This came up in 2015, when I wrote a long blogpost trying to delicately dismantle it that, in the end, I didn’t hit “post” on and which you have, therefore, not read. Anyway, it…gawainsmum
- Call for Papers: Kalamazoo 2018 August 17, 2017medieval-congress-call-2018 This is a call for papers for a session at the IMC Kalamazoo 2018 on: Generalship: in the field and from the armchair Although warfare plays a central role in human societies, study of the organisation of war and … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- The book is out August 16, 2017The Everyday Life of the Templars is now out, priced at £20 or $32.95 for the hardback or £8.99 / $11.72 for the Kindle edition (Amazon only). It can be ordered directly from the publisher or from Amazon UK or … Continue reading →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
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