The View From Kalamazoo

I hate moving. I hate moving with a great purple passion. I hate applying texture paint to ceilings only slightly less. I have painted, and moved crap, for closing on a week. My roller hand is permanently cramped, the up and down stairs and step stools has my hips screaming and my gait resembling that of my bursitis-suffering mother, and let’s not discuss the joy of being a fat woman on my feet painting and painting and painting for 4 days straight, ok?

Latin, politics, and Boston. Gotta love it.

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Medievalist blogs en Français:

Un nouveau blog sur le manuscrit médiéval

Ménestrel: Médiévistes sur l’Internet, Sources, Travaux, Références en ligne

Those pesky Germans!: Germans blamed for Viking invasion

Other news:

Archeologists recover medieval ceramics from Volkhov River

Found at mirabilis.ca: Ancient ‘Bog Body’ Unearthed in Germany

A team of experts are to trawl the Aegean for triremes, the ships that were crucial to the victory over Xerxes of Persia

I love Modigliani: A rarely-seen portrait by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani of his lover Jeanne Hebuterne has been sold for £3.25m in London.

I like Picasso, too: A former lover of Pablo Picasso is to sell 20 sketches by the artist at an auction in Paris later this month.