howbout medieval uni's?

[ellenkushner]

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 deliasherman what else, when she gets up from her post-novel-nap.

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[medievalist.livejournal.com]

By the way . . .

For folk interested in the middle ages, as specialists or not, there's a Ning community a bunch of us medievalists have set up for out reach and recruit . . . umm community creation, here (http://medievalists.ning.com/).

We welcome new members of all sorts.

[aulus-poliutos.livejournal.com]

I should not click that. I don't need another procrastination tool. The TOR site and all the other places I'm hanging out are bad enough already. ;)