Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse by Kaleb Nation
Hardcover: 464 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky (September 2009)
ISBN-10: 1402218575
No gnomes. No mages. Etcetera. Such is the motto of the city of Dunce, a calm and peaceful city that takes great pride in ridding its streets of all forms of magic. Like any other city, it has a bank, and […]
Filed under: Fantasy, Book Reviews on August 31st, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Apse
[aps]
Etymology: Medieval Latin & Latin; Medieval Latin apsis, from Latin
1) The domed or vaulted east end of the church. In Britain the apse is generally squared off, while on the continent, rounded apses were common. (Glossary of Church Architecture, retrieved from BritainExpress.com)
2) Part of a building semi-circular in plan. (Martindale, Andrew. Gothic Art, 268)
3) Semicircular […]
Filed under: Architecture, Middle Ages History, Medieval Glossary, Medieval History on August 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
Ice Land by Betsy Tobin
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Plume (August 25, 2009)
ISBN-10: 0452295696
Destiny is everything. At the foot of the tree Yggdrasil, the Norns sit and spin the threads of fate. The shuttle carries the weft through the loom, moving back and forth, back and forth, until a pattern forms in the fabric. From that pattern […]
Filed under: Middle Ages History, Medieval History, Historical Fiction, Book Reviews on August 26th, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The Wolf Sea by Robert Low
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (May 27, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0312361955
Product Description:
A band of brothers known as the Oathsworn, committed only to each other, feared by many, rises again, setting sail on the wolf sea in search of vengeance and glory.
Washed up in a hostile city, battleweary and out of luck, […]
Filed under: Middle Ages History, Medieval History, Historical Fiction on August 21st, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Sergeanty
Etymology: Middle English sergeantie, from Anglo-French sergantie, sergeantie, from sergant sergeant
A tenure in the Middle Ages; a freehold in return for which the tenant renders specified services or their monetary equivalent. (Hogue, Arthur R. Origins of the Common Law, 257)
A form of feudal tenure on condition of rendering some specified personal service to the lord, […]
Filed under: Middle Ages History, Medieval Glossary, Medieval History on August 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
It’s been a while since I’ve provided any updates on the progress of my novel. Currently, I still have my test group reading it, and I hope to have the majority of their feedback by the end of this month so I can return to editing again starting in September. I know two of my […]
Filed under: Novel on August 20th, 2009 | 4 Comments »
According to Scotland’s Sunday Herald, young 22-year-old Mark Buckland has launched a new publishing house in Glasgow called Cargo. Buckland states: “I have been frustrated at seeing young writers, people under 35, struggling to get anywhere in the Scottish industry. There is a lack of opportunities, a lack of people willing to take chances, and […]
Filed under: Publishing on August 19th, 2009 | No Comments »
Based on an article in the New Yorker, the following seven fantasy novels are essential books for the novice, literary adult reader:
The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
Anything by Guy Gavriel Kay, but particularly Tigana, The Lions of Al-Rassan, Sailing to Sarantium, and The Fionavar Tapestry (a trilogy that begins with The Summer Tree)
Wizard’s First Rule […]
Filed under: Fantasy on August 17th, 2009 | 9 Comments »
He was the pious king, the saintly king, one of the last Anglo-Saxon rulers to sit the English throne. He was St. Edward the Confessor, the son of King Ethelred II and Emma, the daughter of Richard II of Normandy. Exiled due to Danish invasions and unrest among the English nobility, Ethelred’s family took refuge […]
Filed under: Norman Conquest, Anglo-Saxons, People, Middle Ages History, Medieval History on August 12th, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Hugh and Bess by Susan Higginbotham
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark (August 1, 2009)
ISBN-10: 1402215274
He was the son of a traitor. The prisoner of a queen. The lover of two women. The soldier of a king. And the target of something greater than all of these. He was Hugh le Despenser, the son and grandson of executed […]
Filed under: Middle Ages History, Medieval History, Historical Fiction, Book Reviews on August 10th, 2009 | 13 Comments »
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