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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 09:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aamcnamara.livejournal.com
I keep meaning to quit facebook, and compromise by not spending much time there.

I can sympathize with the post-novel nap--got home (by circuitous, college-filled route) last night, and crashed this afternoon for an hour and a half. Now I get to go through the backlog of LJ, email...

Can't think of any medieval universities right now, though. The closest I can think of is A College of Magics, but that has trains.

Date: 2008-08-03 01:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ellen-kushner.livejournal.com
Lordy! You've been On the Road almost as long as Jack Kerouac!

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