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	<title>kalebeul &#187; Early Middle</title>
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	<description>anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8220;Islamic bridge of civilisation to the West over-rated&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/01/islamic-bridge-of-civilisation-to-the-west-over-rated/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/01/islamic-bridge-of-civilisation-to-the-west-over-rated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 12:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Early Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of drink]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of philosophers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sylvain Gouguenheim&#8217;s &#8216;&#8220;Aristote au Mont Saint-Michel&#8221; (Editions du Seuil), while not contending there is an ongoing clash of civilizations, makes the case that Islam was impermeable to much of Greek thought, that the Arab world&#8217;s initial translations of it to Latin were not so much the work of &#8220;Islam&#8221; but of Aramaeans and Christian Arabs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French saw Spanish property crash coming</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/29/french-saw-spanish-property-crash-coming/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/29/french-saw-spanish-property-crash-coming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Early Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of cities and stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the marketplace]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of wars, games and stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently it&#8217;s quite well-known, but I only found it this morning in HG Bohn&#8217;s A hand-book of proverbs (1855), in the household reading room:
To build castles in the air. Far castelli in aria.&#8211;Ital. The French say, Faire des chateaux en Espagne.
It is tempting although perhaps erroneous to believe that this derives from Frankish experiences with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient circular enclosures in northern Spain</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/28/ancient-circular-enclosures-in-northern-spain/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/28/ancient-circular-enclosures-in-northern-spain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[(Pre-)Roman]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Early Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Empire]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Late Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of flocks and work animals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the earth or something]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dido and Hengist are remembered as early heroes of isoperimetry for having solved the challenge of maximising the area of a land grant made to them by stringing together strips of oxhide and using the resulting closed superthong to trace, respectively, a semi-circle at Carthage and a full circle at Kaercorrei. 
What was news to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ugly authors</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/03/28/ugly-authors/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/03/28/ugly-authors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Early Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re photoshopping Jane Austen, so where will it stop? One writer who could do with some help is Al-Jahiz (776-868). Now known as something of a medieval Gollum, he killed and sold fish along the canal in Basra as a small boy, progressed into being a &#8220;notably ugle writer with &#8216;goggle eyes&#8217;&#8221; (hence جاحظ العينين) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moaning Cordobans</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/10/11/moaning-cordobans/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/10/11/moaning-cordobans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Early Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Sídí Abú Yahya, who had been governor of Cordova, said of its people, &#8220;They are like the camel, which fails not to complain whether thou diminishest or increasest its load, so that there is no knowing what they like.&#8221;&#8216; (Gyangos, History of the Mohammedan Dynasties of Spain, quoted in Adolphus, Letters from Spain in 1856 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mel Gibson and the Irish mission</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/09/30/mel-gibson-and-the-irish-mission/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/09/30/mel-gibson-and-the-irish-mission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Early Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of God]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The otherwise excellent Margaret Marks has ruined a peaceful Saturday afternoon by pointing out that St Columba was, apart from the first person to meet the Loch Ness monster, also on the wrong side of the first copyright case&#8211;or so says the Catholic Herald. 
Columcille copied a Jeromian psalter belonging to Finnian, King Diarmit made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wittiza the Worst</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/09/26/wittiza-the-worst/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/09/26/wittiza-the-worst/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Early Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amando de Miguel says that Zapatero is Spain&#8217;s worst ever ruler, with the possible exception of Fernando VII, Witiza and someone else. Wittiza was very naughty and nasty indeed&#8211;he &#8220;taught all Spain to sin&#8220;&#8211;and, to crown it all, he invited the Moors into Spain to help him fight Wodewic. Maybe there&#8217;s a Visigoth somewhere who&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egil</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/02/26/egil/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/02/26/egil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Early Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike the hairdressers of Clonycavan and Croghan, Egil ( &#8220;an ugly, irritable, brooding individual &#8230; deaf, often lost his balance, went blind, suffered from chronically cold feet, endured headaches and experienced bouts of lethargy &#8230; unusual disfigurements of his skull and facial features&#8221;) was clearly a trombonist
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		<title>The Queen of Iznatoraf</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/24/the-queen-of-iznatoraf/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/24/the-queen-of-iznatoraf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Early Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of God]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/24/4666/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A little more reading (Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, Hispano-Arabic Literature and the Early Provençal Lyrics) suggests (possibly unjustly) that Wallada was famous not so much for her poetry as for being the caliph&#8217;s daughter and having poetry written about her by Ibn Zaydun. It&#8217;s a shame that in our enthusiasm to find ancient heroines inoffensive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sodom and Granada</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/03/sodom-and-granada/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/10/03/sodom-and-granada/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Early Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vaguely re this post, there&#8217;s a strong current of belief here that sees the Civil War as a rerun of the Reconquista, with (here we head into caricature mode) the left viewing both as the destruction of a new age of peace and love (the latter in all its many varieties) by intolerant savages, while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Al-Andalusian truth behind April Fool&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/08/14/the-al-andalusian-truth-behind-april-fools/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/08/14/the-al-andalusian-truth-behind-april-fools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Early Middle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Damn shame that all Tony Blair&#8217;s moderate Muslims turned out to be cartoon psychos. Here&#8217;s another burst of frivolity, available in several locations, which, like Yasser Arafat, I take to be a spoof:
Many of us celebrate what is known as April fool or, if it is translated literally, the “trick of April”. But how much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beacons</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/07/09/beacons/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/07/09/beacons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2005 09:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Early Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David de Ugarte writes that &#8220;Al-Qaeda is the first distributed armed organisation that is open and based on open-access technology, ideology and gear.&#8221; The rest is debatable, but the word &#8220;first&#8221; is wrong. What about all those networks of early-warning hill-top beacons in Scandinavia 1000 years ago, used to rouse people with home-made weapons and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pentecostal rambles with Walter the farting dog</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/05/17/pentecostal-rambles-with-walter-the-farting-dog/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/05/17/pentecostal-rambles-with-walter-the-farting-dog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2005 15:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Early Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Late Middle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a note (in Catalan) on the fest in Barceloneta where I took down Sale el sol por la mañana last year. The first fruits function of the Judaic Pentecost explains why the locals dress up in food on their return from their trip out to the country, but I guess this relationship was lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guiris and Phoenicians</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/03/24/guiris-and-phoenicians/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/03/24/guiris-and-phoenicians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[(Pre-)Roman]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Early Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["And as we find in a book of laws called Digesto that city used to be called Guiris because it was created by Garfeus, son of Canaan and grandson of Noah."]]></description>
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		<title>Pere Botero&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/12/14/pere-boteros/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/12/14/pere-boteros/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Early Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Joan Amades]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["On Ponent Street lived another woman known as the Queen because she was daughter of one of the Three Kings"]]></description>
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