Playing Out
Mary HitchmanOdd historical happenings, pre-1000. By Mary Hitchman.
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I went to Paris to buy shoes
Here are some field notes from my solo trip to Paris in early March, mostly taken from my journal. I got rejected for something I really wanted before going, and was then promptly rejected for something else when I arrived. I was in a foul...
Finally! This medieval wise woman wasn’t condemned as a witch
Monegund was sick of her life, sick of her husband, sick of herself.
She performed the same tasks every day in their beautiful house in Chartres, a city south of Paris, making bread and tending the garden with the girl they kept as a serva...
This manuscript smelled like dead rotting cows
“I’m going to need a wheelbarrow.”
This is what I said to the librarian who had kindly placed the enormous leather-bound volume onto the issue desk.
The manuscript looked deceptively new, though it was actually from the mid-13th century....
An Archbishop Abroad
As an academic, even as a friend of academics, the question of how far away you are willing to move for a job comes up frequently. Factors are weighed up: the length of the journey back home, the length of the contract, the pay, what you’d...
The Secret Histories
Frankish bishop Gregory of Tours (d. 595) makes a brief cameo in The Secret History, when Francis Abernathy returns from a shopping trip in Manchester, VT.
“He had been to the bookstore, too. He had a biography of Cortés; a translation o...
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Historian, magpie, menace. Mostly medieval.
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