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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: 2008-08-03 01:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] medievalist.livejournal.com
I was awfully tempted to suggest Sayer's Gaudy Night; it captures the feel of life in a college in ways that I think would have been just as true (and you do it in Kings, too), in the middle ages since students were dining in the same refectories, living in the same rooms, and sleeping through lectures in the halls and reading in the same libraries in Sayers time.

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