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Ancient and Medieval History / Pharoah's retreat
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Ancient and Medieval History / Re: 7000 year old mega site
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Ancient & Medieval Battles / Re: Lake Peipus 1242 AD
Last post by Keraunos - Today at 05:45:57 PMQuote from: Erpingham on Today at 02:02:20 PMThis article appealed because of my interest in how the myths of medieval warfare grow up. Here we have a breakdown of how a story evolves within medieval sources, the development of an accepted version and then, due to a dramatic intervention (in this case literally - a film), the main focus of the narrative changes completely.
Thank you. I share your interest in the development of myths and find this article fascinating, particularly the reveal at the end!
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Ancient and Medieval History / Re: 7000 year old mega site
Last post by Nick Harbud - Today at 03:40:28 PMI mean, he only looks that old....
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Ancient & Medieval Battles / MOVED: Night attacks.
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Ancient and Medieval History / Re: 7000 year old mega site
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Ancient and Medieval History / Re: 7000 year old mega site
Last post by Keraunos - Today at 02:03:16 PMAt first glance I misread your title as '7000 year old Maga site' 
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Ancient & Medieval Battles / Lake Peipus 1242 AD
Last post by Erpingham - Today at 02:02:20 PMWhile not strictly meeting the criteria for this section, this article contains the relevant source materials and a discussion of them.
ALEXANDER NEVSKII'S "BATTLE ON THE ICE": THE CREATION OF A LEGEND
DONALD OSTROWSKI
Russian History, Vol. 33, No. 2/4, "Festschrift" for NORMAN W. INGHAM (SUMMER-FALL-WINTER 2006 / ÉTÉ-AUTOMNE-HIVER 2006), pp. 289-312
This article is hosted on Jstor. At the time of writing, it was accessible for free online reading.
This article appealed because of my interest in how the myths of medieval warfare grow up. Here we have a breakdown of how a story evolves within medieval sources, the development of an accepted version and then, due to a dramatic intervention (in this case literally - a film), the main focus of the narrative changes completely.
ALEXANDER NEVSKII'S "BATTLE ON THE ICE": THE CREATION OF A LEGEND
DONALD OSTROWSKI
Russian History, Vol. 33, No. 2/4, "Festschrift" for NORMAN W. INGHAM (SUMMER-FALL-WINTER 2006 / ÉTÉ-AUTOMNE-HIVER 2006), pp. 289-312
This article is hosted on Jstor. At the time of writing, it was accessible for free online reading.
This article appealed because of my interest in how the myths of medieval warfare grow up. Here we have a breakdown of how a story evolves within medieval sources, the development of an accepted version and then, due to a dramatic intervention (in this case literally - a film), the main focus of the narrative changes completely.
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Ancient and Medieval History / 7000 year old mega site
Last post by Imperial Dave - Today at 12:46:13 PM #10