Isle of Wonder

It started with being a dumping ground for my extraneous projects in Medieval Studies while I was in university, now it is whatever subject I am moved by regarding literature, history or language.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Elf, Fairy, or Sidhe? Which Should It Be? Spoiler Alert!

I enjoyed watching Hellboy 2: The Golden Army , but unfortunately for Hellboy, the three kids who were with me and I were rooting for th...

Sunday, October 12, 2008

The Nature of Friendship in the Middle Ages and the Internet Age

O, what a tangled we weaved when the world wide web was first conceived! It seems like things were so much simpler years ago but were ...

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Walter Map and Vampires in the Middle Ages

The first thing that Bella did in Twilight , upon discovering that her new boyfriend was a vampire, was to go on Wikipedia and look up ...

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Walter Map on Bernard de Clairvaux

Walter Map was born c1140 in Hereford County, England. He was a Welshman by origin but a Norman aristocrat and a friend of Geraldus C...

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The Red Witch: Southern Ontario, Canada; Heritage worker and Researcher. M.A. in Medieval Studies.

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