Historical Tales

For some noble reason that now seems somewhat foolish in retrospect given the amount of work involved,^* I agreed to host the March edition of Carnivalesque. What is Carnivalesque, you ask? According to its mission statement:

Blog carnivals are regular showcases of recent blogging, usually focused on particular themes, which usually circulate around a range of host blogs, giving each carnival a variety of perspectives.

Carnivalesque was originally launched in September 2004 as a carnival for early modern history. [...] Since July 2005, Carnivalesque has run monthly, alternating between early modern (c.1500-1800CE) and ancient & medieval topics (up to c.1500CE).

Carnivalesque is certainly not just for academics. We welcome perspectives from a variety of fields, especially history, literary studies, archaeology, art history, philosophy – in fact, from anyone who enjoys writing about anything to do with the not-so-recent past. You can nominate your own writing and/or that of other bloggers, but please try not to nominate more than one or two posts by any author for any single edition of Carnivalesque, and limit nominations to recent posts.

To nominate a blog post^** that you think is sufficiently awesome to be included in the carnival, you can either use Carnivalesque’s standard nomination form, my blog’s usual contact form, or email the blog’s gmail.com account directly. The blog’s username/handle is ‘gotmedieval’.^***

The carnival is set for March 25th, so there’s really no time to lose. Get to referring!

1. * I probably thought it’d make it more likely my own work would make it into future editions of the carnival. Oh selfish, short-sighted me, what won’t you get us into? [↩]
2. ** Even one of your own–I promise I won’t tell! [↩]
3. *** And the password is unhackable,‡ so don’t even try.  
   ‡Even by precocious scatalogically-minded time-displaced medieval foxes who are probably just manifestations of this blogger’s looming mental collapse. [↩]