Medieval History
Toby Bakare had to decide between a law degree ? which had financial potential, and history ? which was his passion. This is his story:
As a kid, I was always interested in history, but at school it was not seen as a useful subject. For my GCSEs I was told to study more practical subjects, like business studies and ICT. I wasn't very good at these subjects. I didn't enjoy them, but I could see the logic in studying them, so I did.
When it was time to choose subjects at A-level, I learned from my mistakes at GCSE and knew that I wanted to do what I enjoyed and what interested me; history became a must. At college, I became passionate about the past. This was because of two fantastic teachers who didn't just teach facts and what would be in the exam, they talked about ideas and why these ideas mattered.
Click here to read this article from The Guardian
- Exemplaria Receives The Phoenix Award For Most Improved Journal
Exemplaria, an academic journal dedicated to medieval and Renaissance studies from Maney Publishing, has received the 2011 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ). The CELJ is an organisation...
- Where The Medieval Isn't......
This is a post about where one would hope to find a medieval reference of some kind, but sadly didn't. I happened to have the radio on this morning and was half listening to a MPR show called Midmorning hosted by Kerri Miller. She had a doctor on...
- The Birth (and Death) Of A Legend
Charlemagne or Christ?Shortly after his death, a conscious program of myth-creation began. The ideals he died for represented something noble but something lost -- an archetype for a Golden Age. But it was not a simple climb to Olympian glory;...
- Hortulus Call For Papers: Wounds, Torture, And The Grotesque
Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed, peer-reviewed, and born-digital journal devoted to the culture, literature, history, and society of the medieval past. Published semi-annually, the journal collects exceptional...
- Books
JRR Tolkien was a medieval enthusiast. He studied and taught on a lot on medieval texts, mythologies and languages. His fiction is saturated with it, using heroic types and tales, riddles, mythological creatures, and even semantics. In his most...
Medieval History
'I'm glad I chose history'
Toby Bakare had to decide between a law degree ? which had financial potential, and history ? which was his passion. This is his story:
As a kid, I was always interested in history, but at school it was not seen as a useful subject. For my GCSEs I was told to study more practical subjects, like business studies and ICT. I wasn't very good at these subjects. I didn't enjoy them, but I could see the logic in studying them, so I did.
When it was time to choose subjects at A-level, I learned from my mistakes at GCSE and knew that I wanted to do what I enjoyed and what interested me; history became a must. At college, I became passionate about the past. This was because of two fantastic teachers who didn't just teach facts and what would be in the exam, they talked about ideas and why these ideas mattered.
Click here to read this article from The Guardian
- Exemplaria Receives The Phoenix Award For Most Improved Journal
Exemplaria, an academic journal dedicated to medieval and Renaissance studies from Maney Publishing, has received the 2011 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ). The CELJ is an organisation...
- Where The Medieval Isn't......
This is a post about where one would hope to find a medieval reference of some kind, but sadly didn't. I happened to have the radio on this morning and was half listening to a MPR show called Midmorning hosted by Kerri Miller. She had a doctor on...
- The Birth (and Death) Of A Legend
Charlemagne or Christ?Shortly after his death, a conscious program of myth-creation began. The ideals he died for represented something noble but something lost -- an archetype for a Golden Age. But it was not a simple climb to Olympian glory;...
- Hortulus Call For Papers: Wounds, Torture, And The Grotesque
Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed, peer-reviewed, and born-digital journal devoted to the culture, literature, history, and society of the medieval past. Published semi-annually, the journal collects exceptional...
- Books
JRR Tolkien was a medieval enthusiast. He studied and taught on a lot on medieval texts, mythologies and languages. His fiction is saturated with it, using heroic types and tales, riddles, mythological creatures, and even semantics. In his most...