More Fiction than Historical?

Knightfall

The Knights of Malta

Post by Vatican Radio - English Section.

Items of Interest, 6 September 2011

Rod Dreher returns to blogging -- he is now at TAC.
Thomas Fleming, Idling, Week 1
Patrick Buchanan, How Capital Crushed Labor

Distributist Review:
The Debt Ceiling Deception
Does Property Have a Purpose?

John Robb, HOLLOW STATES and a CRISIS OF CAPITALISM

Medievalists.net: The Death of the Knight: Changes in Military Weaponry during the Tudor Period

Peak Oil: No laughing matter by Brendan Barrett (EB)

NPR: The 'Top Secret America' Created After Sept. 11
Dana Priest and William Arkin, Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State

Sen. Jim Webb: Editorial: Webb puts troops ahead of profits

TED

Every new invention changes the world -- in ways both intentional and unexpected. Historian Edward Tenner tells stories that illustrate the under-appreciated gap between our ability to innovate and our ability to foresee the consequences.

Music:
Q&A: Bela Fleck on banjo, storms

Medievalists.net: The Medieval Tournament: Chivalry, Heraldry and Reality. An Edition and Analysis of Three Fifteenth-Century Tournament Manuscripts

the dissertation

The Emergence and Formation of the Second Estate as the Knightly Class in France, 814-1230 By Christopher Connor (via Medievalists.net)