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Classics Club Challenge | Keri Blakinger
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I’ve recently decided to expand this blog in a new direction; I’m participating in the Classic Club challenge. I suck at many things most of all singing but I’m good at reading. Hukt on fonix wurkt 4 me. So a reading challenge I can handle. Basically, the Classics Club challenge is a group of bloggers all challenging themselves to read at least 50 classic books by a certain date, sometime within 5 years. More details HERE. The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio, 1353). Utopia (Thomas More, 1516). Scarlet Pimp...
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HISTORY OF WORLD CITIES: MEDIEVAL LONDON
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HISTORY OF WORLD CITIES. Sunday, 23 June 2013. Mattew Paris manuscript, British Library. This is the first known view of London, a section from a road map (from London to Rome) drawn by the monk, Matthew Paris, in about 1252. The view shows three recognisable monuments: on the left, The Tower, St. Paul’s in the centre, and to the right, Westminster Abbey. The wall, with its gates, is visible in the foreground. For the East Saxon people. For Anglo-Saxons, Londinium became Lundewic. King Edward the Confess...
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