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Blogging the Carmen and the Conquest
Today's the big day. I'm getting ready to hit the publish button to send my translation of the Carmen off to Kindle for publication. So I guess this first post to the blog is about why I did it....
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It's been a rollercoaster ride of thrilling insight and wearing frustration, but finally I hit the "publish" button on the Kindle publishing website this morning. The Carmen and The Conquest will be...
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The Carmen and The Conquest: Kindle Link
I have to admit checking every few hours yesterday to see if the ebook was available at Amazon yet. It was there when I checked after dinner.The Carmen and The Conquest
View ArticleWhat's wrong with the Barlow Carmen?
The short answer to the title question is I don't know what's wrong with the Barlow Carmen. I haven't seen the Barlow Carmen. It costs over £100 on Amazon and isn't available from any public lending...
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A medieval data standard? The Carmen suggests a Barony Naming Convention
A lot of the globalisation of financial markets has been driven by the implementation of global data standards so that computers can talk to each other in the same language around the world. I've been...
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Who killed King Harold at the Battle of Hastings?
This scene from the Carmen is the one that most interests popular historians. The death of King Harold is described from line 533 to line 554.Because the manuscript Carmen in Medieval Latin miniscule...
View ArticleLanfranc - A very unhappy archbishop of Canterbury!
I came across a 1070 letter of Lanfranc of Pavia (prior of Bec, next abbot of Caen, then archbishop of Canterbury from 1070) to Pope Alexander II, and had no sooner started reading it than I was...
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Paperback Carmen Now Available
The paperback version of The Carmen and the Conquestis now available worldwide. It's a good feeling to handle a physical book still, even if the words are the same as the ebook version. Somehow...
View ArticleCarmen and Conquest Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDate: 13/06/2013Contact: Kathleen Tyson, +44 **** *** 566, carmenandconquest@gmail.comOldest record of the Norman Conquest reveals a new history of 1066A new translation of the...
View ArticleTwo excerpts revealing the importance of context in translation
Morton & Muntz 1972 Carmen (Oxford Medieval Press):In the city there was a certain man crippled by a weakness of the loins and therefore slow upon his feet, because he had received some few wounds...
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View ArticleSpeaker notes from Leeds International Medieval Congress 2013
[This was written on Wednesday, 3rd July 2013 at IMC Leeds 2013] I’m at my first International Medieval Congress in Leeds. I’ve learned huge amounts about history, filling in quite a few gaps that...
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King Offa's 790 Charter for London, Hastings and Pevensey to Saint-Denis of...
London, Hastings and Pevensey were French/Norman colonies in medieval England, settled by colonists from 788 onwards who described inland England as "foreign". Hostility and tensions grew as the size...
View ArticleMea Culpa - Well, this is embarassing . . .
I've temporarily suspended the Carmen from sale for some fairly substantive revisions. Having received the digital images of the manuscript yesterday, I've been able to check those transcription...
View ArticlePublished! Carmen de Triumpho Normannico - The Song of the Norman Conquest
Well, it's finally done. After months of painstaking effort I'm now happy enough to hit the PUBLISH button again. The book is called Carmen de Triumpho Normannico - The Song of the Norman Conquest....
View ArticleIt's not Battle, or Caldbec Hill or Crowhurst . . . So where WAS the Battle...
The Time Team special on 1066: The Lost Battlefield aired tonight. What we now know is that the Battle of Hastings was not at Battle, nor at Caldbec Hill, nor at Crowhurst. The best guess of the Time...
View ArticleHoning and polishing the Carmen . . . and saying thanks
I blundered into Latin translation in January of last year unintentionally. I just wanted to translate a few lines of the Carmen where I had my doubts that the previous translators had grasped the...
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Did the Normans follow Caesar's invasion plan?
I've added a biggish insight to the footnotes of the Carmen: the suggestion that the Normans were following the same plan of attack as Caesar recorded in his Commentaries on the Gallic Wars and the...
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Hastings - a name and a port like Ostia?
Hastings may be a name derived from Ostia, and sensibly have described the Roman port in Britainnia for control of trade between the province and Gaul opposite its mouth. If so, the map below may be...
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Going to Battle for a Better History of 1066
We make choices in life, and I've made a big one. I've revised the Carmen to include an Introduction with several theories I've been developing for the past year that will challenge commonly received...
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