…sed mutato nomine te fabula narratur…

In November and December 2009, I went to Vienna (for a Hludowicus Project Meeting), and to Frankfurt (for a T&I project meeting). In between those two, I spent some time working in the ever-inspiring OEAW, where the coffee and company is good and plentiful, and strolled around beautiful Vienna in what turned out to be the last few nice days of the year (weather-wise, that is). Went to the Leopold Museum to see Munch and the Uncanny, went to the Albertina to compensate for this expressionist onslaught with some nice Impressionists impressions, went to the Wien Museum to experience the excitement of Vienna in the 20s and 30s (all great exhibitions by the way!), got lost in the labyrinth that is the Wiener Altstadt, got some trinkets at the Christkindlmarkt, went to the Kunsthistorisches Museum to gawk at Old Dutch Masters, Egyptian stuff and Charles the Bold, and felt revived by all this high art and culture.

Also, I drank quite a few beers, gluhweins, Rieslinge, and other beverages there, saw Modern Earl perform in some basement with some of my new-found friends, and had an overall good time! So thanks to everyone involved for making that happen!! (and an extra-special thank-you to Gerda for letting me stay at her apartment! You rock!)

Seeing as it has already been some time since all this went down (holidays, you know), I figured I’d just let the few pictures I took do the talking. Just a few, I’m afraid, as I actually had to work as well, but still, they seem kinda nice… Read the rest of this entry »

Of course it had to happen that the first “proper” update on this new site is, again, a bunch of limericks, but that’s how it goes…

These here were influenced, nay, inspired by the presentations held at the T&I-sessions in Frankfurt, 4-6 December 2009. I sent them around for approval before posting them here because it was quite a hard set of subjects of accurately convey in five lines, but as yet I have not gotten any complaints so I guess it is safe to post them here.

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Here are the limericks written during the RMA-study trip to the Alsace, 1-6 November 2008. Some are by me, some are by students, all are idiosyncratic and personally approved by me!

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Here are some limericks I cooked up during a T&I-session in Auxerre – a very inspirational environment, if I may say so! Most of these are inspired by presentations I heard, and all are influenced by spending a couple of days in the presence of other medievalists, so … beware!!

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Seeing as I have these uncontrollable bouts of limerick-writing, here are some slightly blasphemous, post-modern and otherwise absurdist ones that I had lying around…
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