Mediaeval news round-up
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mediaevalistThis is what I get for neglecting to post as often as I should. All the cool stuff happens while I'm procrastinating working.
Export of the Dering Roll (13th Century roll of arms) has been delayed in order to raise enough money to keep it in the UK.
If only I had several million...My kingdom for a tax write-off.
Da Vinci Code film actually good for something: Rosslyn Chapel nets £1.35m surplus from visitors.
I suppose even atrocious 'history' has a silver lining now and then. You won't find the Holy Grail in the 15th Century Scottish church, though (You'll have to go to the Louvre for that).
Archaeologists closer to finding home of of the first King of unified Scotland.
GU makes the archaeological news yet again. Apparently, the site is somewhere in Perthshire, which would make sense. The region is the traditional border between the Lowlands and the Highlands and at the time was the juncture between the Dál Riata Irish to the west, Northumbrians to the south, and the Picts to the north.
Site of a 17th Century Japanese village found in Cambodia.
From what I can tell, this may have been a pilgrimage/tourism site, much like Canterbury in the UK, Santiago de Compostela in Spain, or even Jerusalem in Israel in the Middle Ages. Knowledge of this site would have come in handy for that Pilgrimage & Tourism course I took back at uni.
Export of the Dering Roll (13th Century roll of arms) has been delayed in order to raise enough money to keep it in the UK.
If only I had several million...My kingdom for a tax write-off.
Da Vinci Code film actually good for something: Rosslyn Chapel nets £1.35m surplus from visitors.
I suppose even atrocious 'history' has a silver lining now and then. You won't find the Holy Grail in the 15th Century Scottish church, though (You'll have to go to the Louvre for that).
Archaeologists closer to finding home of of the first King of unified Scotland.
GU makes the archaeological news yet again. Apparently, the site is somewhere in Perthshire, which would make sense. The region is the traditional border between the Lowlands and the Highlands and at the time was the juncture between the Dál Riata Irish to the west, Northumbrians to the south, and the Picts to the north.
Site of a 17th Century Japanese village found in Cambodia.
From what I can tell, this may have been a pilgrimage/tourism site, much like Canterbury in the UK, Santiago de Compostela in Spain, or even Jerusalem in Israel in the Middle Ages. Knowledge of this site would have come in handy for that Pilgrimage & Tourism course I took back at uni.