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| Melisande Psalter |
Salvete Omnes,
it is the hot days of the year, lovely blues skies and harvest time traditionally in the Northern Hemisphere.
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| milking a cow |
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| medieval life |
Author Helen Schrader
wrote another excellent article on her blog - on the the particularly of the rural Frankish settlement in the Crusader states, according to the newest research and archaeology - mostly via
Ronnie Ellenblum's research - also about the prevalence of Christian settlements and population in the Holy Land during the medieval period.
Here,
an article on building a church in Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Article on
the Norman settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem before 1133AD.
Simon Dorso has
this article on sugar growing and in general on various aspects of the life of the rural settlers of Latin East.
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| council of Acra |
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| Council of Jerusalem |
My friend
Krzysztof Laszkiewicz had the official presentation of his new book at the
Manufaktura in Lodz.
They blew up my small drawing of King Jagiello and his courtiers onto the wall, as you can see in this picture
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| Krzysztof & wife Katarzyna at Manufaktura, Lodz |
Arne Koets, Peter Spatling et al. did an experiment - shooting crossbow bolts at a reconstructed chain-of-mail shirt with a reconstructed medieval 200lbs crossbow - watch the
video and marvel at the protective qualities of the medieval chain-of-mail.
Valete!
