Archive for June, 2009
Photo: Michigan City, Indiana
Posted in Uncategorized on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
Posted in Uncategorized on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s only one reason why I occasionally wish I lived in New York and not Chicago, and that’s the ability to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s fantastic medieval manuscript exhibitions, which, at least from my vantage point, seem to happen rather often.
The most recent one is called Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle [...]
Fantasy Book Review (.co.uk)
Posted in Uncategorized on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I came across what may be the last word in finding the best fantasy books possible, a very comprehensive British site that’s aptly named Fantasy Book Review.
Of particular note is their listing of the best 100 fantasy books of all time, a list that’s sure to provoke some intense discussion. (The list has already won [...]
The Voynich Manuscript (XKCD)
Posted in Uncategorized on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Above is a funny comic from last week from XKCD concerning the Voynich Manuscript, which is, in fact, a real object. When I was doing some research at the Beinecke Library at Yale, it was one of the manuscripts that I most wanted to get my hands on. Unfortunately, when I arrived, someone else apparently [...]
