dangit seth.. u made me google the guy and actually read about him (actually I also like history... alot)
however this guy seems to have alot more to do with English medival history than French
btw if you really like teh medival shat... you should find a cheap used book called Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet.
Follet in general is a shat author who writes like Grisham... food for the masses and not worth reading. However this one book he wrote was quite entertaining. It's about a man roughly living around the time of William of Normandy whose lifelong dream is to build a beautiful cathedral... lots of medieval carnage and good vs evil stuff
gawd I don't even know if any colleges teach that shat!
my hs history teacher was a joke... his real job was coaching the football team
honorable profession tho seth... many kudos
Now that's funny. Mine was the baseball coach. I played ball so I really didn't have to do much in history class. I wanted to be a lawyer until I found out that the major study for law was history.
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Charlie3 wrote:dangit seth.. u made me google the guy and actually read about him (actually I also like history... alot)
however this guy seems to have alot more to do with English medival history than French
btw if you really like teh medival shat... you should find a cheap used book called Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet.
Follet in general is a shat author who writes like Grisham... food for the masses and not worth reading. However this one book he wrote was quite entertaining. It's about a man roughly living around the time of William of Normandy whose lifelong dream is to build a beautiful cathedral... lots of medieval carnage and good vs evil stuff
I agree about follet, but his historic novels are fun. I have read this book - and if I'm not to much wrong this is a serie of three books following him and his family for 2 (?)generations
Thor
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Oh don't worry he changed medieval history period. Started centralizing government leading to the nation states we know today. Not to mention that whole 100 years war thing. Oh and can you tell me the last person to invade mainland britain successfully? He was a cool doode. He was an ass apparently, but cool cause he was a badass.
Ithica wrote:Oh and can you tell me the last person to invade mainland britain successfully?
There are several million Indians, Pakistanis, Turks, Arabs, Africans etc. doing a fair imitation of that as we speak.
Pillars of the Earth is a good read, quite interesting. Another excellent book is Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose". A brilliant insight into the life in a medievel monastery. Basically a murder mystery, it goes into so much detail about the time period, and the culture, estremely well written, by a world renowned semiotician (sort of like linguistics). The movie was good (had Sean Connery in it), but not a patch on the book.
He was a cool doode. He was an ass apparently, but cool cause he was a badass.
