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Book Review:The Saint and the Fasting Girl

David Morton — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:04:48 +0000

It was a real honour to be asked by Anna Richenda, recently, if I would review her new self-published novel, The Saint and the Fasting Girl. As a fan of HistoryFish.net her expansive website devoted to medieval religious topics, I had been reading progress reports in her blog about the book’s publication for some time. [...] Related posts:

Slaying Dragons

David Morton — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:41:33 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I had my trial by fire. I attended a meeting of my erstwhile writers’ group and read a passage from my novel. I had taken a few weeks off work to make some headway on the novel and I had about 40 pages of material from which to choose a [...] Related posts:

Food in the Middle Ages: Eight Things You Probably Didn’t Know

David Morton — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:35:19 +0000

Food is one of my favourite topics, and if I weren’t obsessing here about the Middle Ages, I’d probably be blogging about my food obsessions. Food is not really a concern in my novel (at least not at the moment), but I’ve done a little bit of reading on the topic as research. Not a [...] Related posts:

New Middle Ages Movie Pick: The Reckoning

David Morton — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:49:34 +0000

My two posts on the Top Ten Films of the Middle Ages List (part one and part two), along with a recent addition to the list, continue to be three of the most viewed pages on this blog. Visitors wander in directly from Google, having searched for movies relating to the Middle Ages. And the [...] Related posts:

Inspiring Places: Historyfish.net

David Morton — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:00:22 +0000

“Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.” Or so said D.H. Lawrence. Which gives me some comfort, because I seem to be doing all I can to avoid my writing, this morning. I’ve spent the last couple of hours brewing a Shitake Beef Stew that will be consumed tonight. I’ve [...] Related posts:

Inspiring Places: Barry Unsworth’s Morality Play

David Morton — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:35:03 +0000

Finally, a respite from the rain and the cold. The sun shines today in Vancouver, and it looks like spring, though the cherry blossoms are nowhere to be seen. The blossoms in my front yard are trying, but they are reluctant to invest themselves in this uneven weather. They look like little popcorn kernels ready [...] Related posts:

New Pick for the Top Ten Medieval Movies List

David Morton — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:00:20 +0000

It was inevitable, I suppose. Top Ten Lists, by their very nature, must needs be revised every now and then, and herewith I expand my Top Ten All-Time Movies set in the Middle Ages. I’ve just watched an inspiring movie about the Middle Ages that literally bridges that era with the current one. It was [...] Related posts:

The Middle Ages Still Rule!

David Morton — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:23:30 +0000

Back in January, I wrote a blog post about the medieval era in general and the fact that it suffers as a time overshadowed by the Renaissance, a period of flowering humanism and artistic and cultural progress. I have nothing against the Renaissance, folks, but I am regularly surprised and delighted that the Middle Ages [...] Related posts:

Top Ten Films About the Middle Ages (Part Two)

David Morton — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:00:27 +0000

In yesterday’s post, I introduced the first five of my all-time top ten list of movies about the Middle Ages. To recap, here are the first five: The Name Of The Rose Braveheart Becket Seventh Seal Monthy Python and the Holy Grail Here is the rest of my all-time top ten movies about the Middle [...] Related posts:

Top Ten Films About the Middle Ages (Part One)

David Morton — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:00:54 +0000

OK, quick! What are your top ten movies about the Middle Ages? What, nobody responding? Can’t think of ten movies about the Middle Ages? How many can you think of, then? Making my own top 10 list was challenging: there was a whole list of titles crowding the entrance. When I applied rules, there were [...] Related posts: