tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27643523.post9222713800388449780..comments2024-03-20T03:11:21.756-07:00Comments on The Great Raven: Just Finished Reading...Sue Bursztynskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27643523.post-68974684598386822162016-01-27T23:23:01.544-08:002016-01-27T23:23:01.544-08:00Thing is, "daily life in Ancient Rome/Mediaev...Thing is, "daily life in Ancient Rome/Mediaeval England" is something people associate with Year 7 and 8 history. BORING! And men, especially, want to skip the bits about how they built their boats and get on to the good stuff, like who won the Battle of Hastings. I did my best, when I was teaching year 8 history in 2014. My primary sources included Ibn Fadlan, who described Vikings as the filthiest people he ever met, describing in great detail how they shared a wash bowl in the morning and spat into it, and another, later source from an Englishman who complained that those bloody Vikings were getting all the girls because they were so damned CLEAN! I invited my students to decide which they thought was accurate. (They preferred the Ibn Fadlan story, of course). Maybe it was just the Russian Vikings who were dirty. One of my students discovered, to her delight, that people slept naked in the Middle Ages and asked if she could draw it on her assignment sheet. I said she could if she liked, though it was no big deal to those people, and anyone who saw her assignment wouldn't be interested in the rest of it. In a later assignment, she drew me a picture of a smirking Aztec God clutching a mug of hot chocolate...Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27643523.post-33865897549165848432016-01-27T21:15:15.900-08:002016-01-27T21:15:15.900-08:00There are some history podcasts I enjoy, but latel...There are some history podcasts I enjoy, but lately I do get frustrated that they are all about the broad sweeps, and what I want to know is what the people ate, and what did they make their clothes from and how did they make them. How did they get the metal for their weapons? It's great that there were pirates in ancient times, but how were the ships built? I often think it might have been the little things that motivated people to do the things they did.UrbanDragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13213381068886026594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27643523.post-34229196127712192192016-01-26T11:45:17.863-08:002016-01-26T11:45:17.863-08:00You can buy Medieval Underpants as an ebook. Yes, ...You can buy Medieval Underpants as an ebook. Yes, anachronisms can really jar. I'll admit we all do it, even the author of Medieval Underpants admitted she had done it now and then. It helps to have an alert editor - mine, for Wolfborn, was a specialist in that kind of fiction. And I noticed, before publication, that the king had been referred to as His Majesty(a few hundred years early)and fixed all but one reference ...which was still there when I opened the published book! Ack. But nowhere near as bad as medieval lingerie.<br /><br />Temple Of Doom is in general the least popular of the movies, but I watched it anyway. Our ESL teacher used that one. I liked it better this time around. Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27643523.post-50273624665840606952016-01-26T07:39:28.780-08:002016-01-26T07:39:28.780-08:00I need that Medieval Underpants book, stat! That ...I need that <i>Medieval Underpants</i> book, stat! That sort of thing drives me crazy. Lingerie in the 11th Century, eh? Even if it had existed, it would have probably been made out of dirty wool or something. <br /><br /><i>Temple of Doom</i> is my least favorite Indy, probably because it scared the pants off of me as a kid. For pure fun, I like <i>Raiders</i>, and <i>Last Crusade</i> is a bit meatier with the whole estranged father/son bit. I think <i>Temple of Doom</i> was a bit more ... stylish?Pamelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01182813280153795199noreply@blogger.com