Back in 1986, as a celebration of the 900th anniversary of the Domesday book, the census ordered by William the Bastard (that’s William the Conqueror to Sasenachs), Britain spent millions to compile text, images and, maps, audio and video recordings, as a snap shot of Britain, and stored them on laser discs as part of…
24th Annual University of California Celtic Conference
This year the emphasis is (more than usually even!) on The Tainte and the Mabinogi. The program is here.
A Circle of Stones
According to AP, by way of Yahoo, Professor Judith S. Young, Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has built a sun circle, a celestial computer along the lines of Stonehenge, or Avebury. I’ve taken pains to point out elsewhere that Stonehenge, like Avebury, or the passage tomb at Brugh Na Boine (that’s Newgrange, Ireland…
The Eisteddfod
Beth am gystadlu yn unig e-steddfod y byd? Cliciwch yma am y rhestr testunau a hanes yr eisteddfod. Why not compete in the world’s only on-line e-steddfod?, or “poetry competition” Click here for competition details and a history of the eisteddfod.
Twelfth International Congress of Celtic Studies
The Twelfth International Congress of Celtic Studiess will be held at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth between the 24th and the 30th of August 2003. You can find the call for papers here. Proposals are due April 3oth, 2002.
Galations: The Biblical Celts
Yes, that’s right, Galatia in Turkey. Those people in Paul’s New Testament Epistle to the Galations were Celts, from Gaul. These Continental Celts eventually arrived in Macedonia in 279 B.E., where they gathered under a tribal leader named Brennus. They intended to raid the rich temple of Delphi. Like their insular brethren, these Gauls were…
Celtic Tribal Maps
I’ve noticed several sites with maps of Celtic tribes’ locations, like this one of the Celtic tribes of Britain, or this, tribes of Britain and the Continent, or even the tribes of Wales. There are also some specialized maps, like this one, of the Celtic Tribes and Caesar’s Campaigns in Gaul (58-50 BC) . If…
Birth of a Blog
This is by way of an experiment for me; I’m new to blogging. My friend Paul’s iPaulo got me thinking about blogs as ways of creating communities, and that led me to think about blogs in instructional technology, serious and otherwise. I’ve had my digitalmedievalist site for years, but I find I’m not keeping it…