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Thank you for the wise rug advice. And now for something completely different - Nicholas Laccetti sent me this query on FaceBook (which is, to my mind, I'm sorry, a completely useless appendage when it comes to joint interaction and we should all just switch to LJ unless we care passionately about acquiring pixellated beers):

Lately I have been looking around for books set in or about medieval universities (fiction or nonfiction). Since you co-wrote the wonderful Fall of the Kings, I figured you might have some recommendations.

Flattery will get you everywhere - including access to my Brain Trust.

Well, friends?

Me, in non-fiction I would recommend anything about Peter Abelard - it was "his" Paris university that we had in the back of our brains when we started working on Kings. We also read Will & Ariel Durant . . . I'll have to ask [livejournal.com profile] deliasherman what else, when she gets up from her post-novel-nap.

Date: 2008-08-02 08:07 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com
Hm. I can't think of any other medieval university novels offhand, but I'm sure they must exist.

I do second the recommendation to read about Abelard. Specifically, read the actual, preserved letters of Abelard and Heloise. Nothing says, "Aren't you sorry you educated me now?" better than a woman out-arguing the teacher who taught her rhetoric, when said teacher is also the woman's angst-ridden and now castrated former lover. Abelard just can't win.

Date: 2008-08-03 12:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ellen-kushner.livejournal.com
Heh!

Do people know Sharan Newman's French medieval mysteries? I haven't read many, but they sound promising - especially HERESY, in which the heroine's best pal is A&H's son Astrolabe (I'm *not* making this *up*, you know!)....
http://www.sharannewman.com/levendeur/heresy.html
http://www.sharannewman.com/levendeur/index.html

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