OH MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
Apr. 13th, 2010 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardLife was hard back in the days before Internet and cable, you know.
Perhaps the most celebrated [sergeanty service] among historians is that attached to the manor of Hemingstone in Suffolk, whose tenant was to leap, whistle and fart for the king's amusement every Christmas Day.
So far, in the rankings of medieval military historians I have read, for readability: John Sadler (Border Fury), Michael Prestwich (Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages: The English Experience), Maurice Keen (Chivalry), and waaaaaay down at the bottom, David Cornell (Bannockburn).
I just wish I'd actually read through all these books; do not ask how far along I am on my big research paper for Medieval England. You know, the one due Thursday morning. FAIL BEDLAM. (However, I am fairly secure in the knowledge that I will probably get at least a C on the paper, despite the fact that I haven't started it yet, and will probably get at least a B in the class, because I got As on both midterms.)
Perhaps the most celebrated [sergeanty service] among historians is that attached to the manor of Hemingstone in Suffolk, whose tenant was to leap, whistle and fart for the king's amusement every Christmas Day.
So far, in the rankings of medieval military historians I have read, for readability: John Sadler (Border Fury), Michael Prestwich (Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages: The English Experience), Maurice Keen (Chivalry), and waaaaaay down at the bottom, David Cornell (Bannockburn).
I just wish I'd actually read through all these books; do not ask how far along I am on my big research paper for Medieval England. You know, the one due Thursday morning. FAIL BEDLAM. (However, I am fairly secure in the knowledge that I will probably get at least a C on the paper, despite the fact that I haven't started it yet, and will probably get at least a B in the class, because I got As on both midterms.)