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Re: Like Normans? Then, you will love Sir Walter Scott. (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Thanks for the comment, and I promise I will get round to Sir Walter soon - your reviews have already made me want to do that!
So many books, so little time...
CaptainD
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Jun 24 '07
4:58 am PDT
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Like Normans? Then, you will love Sir Walter Scott. (Reply to this comment)
by aohcapablanca
Thank 'ee, Cap'n for another wise review!
That Normans were diverted to the Crusades and away from further, by then traditional, looting of their much nearer and more vulnerable European neighbors was seen by one or two historians in my distant youth as a kind of primitive "peace studies" technique pragmatically used by popes and people like Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
The Normans conquered England, but not Scotland. Yet many of them went north to serve Scottish Kings. By the time of Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832), there may have been no noble house in Caledonia without Norman blood.
Read IVANHOE for its Normans. There are real ones like King Richard I, the Lion-heart and his brother Prince John of the House of Anjou. There are fictitious ones like Brian de Bois-Guilbert. And there are also Normans crusading past Constantinople in COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS. And on and on.
Those Normans left their impact. They made better and better allies as time went by. They interacted creatively with their subjects in both Scotland, Wales and especially Ireland. Terrifying they sometimes were, insipid rarely.
Thank you again for your review!
AOHCAPABLANCA 06/23/2007
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Jun 23 '07
7:10 am PDT
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Re: The (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
I checked out the seven wonders on Wikipediea, and although there were quite a few lists the tapestry didn't seem to be there.
There are probably many seven wonders lists nowadays, depending who you ask!!
CaptainD
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Jun 02 '07
3:29 pm PDT
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The (Reply to this comment)
by George_Chabot,  in Books
Bayeux Tapestry is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World now, according to a pretty decent book I have on the subject. It's not in the data base but it covers the Ancient World, Middle Ages, and Modern World. I'm surprised they didn't mention it, also in the book you read.
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Jun 01 '07
2:58 pm PDT
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Re: Im (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Hope you enjoy it! (I take it you're getting it sometime...)
CaptainD
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Jun 01 '07
8:54 am PDT
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Im (Reply to this comment)
by dimeuhday
really interested in the Awesome Egyptians. I love everything and anything about anchient egypt. Thanks for writing that review.. and this one of course.
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May 31 '07
12:17 pm PDT
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