Edward III has been in the news over the last couple days...
Excavations at Hampton Court:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3216583/Hampton-Court-medieval-hall-was-burned-down-after-Edward-III-knees-up.html
And another take on the foundations:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1078477/Archaeologists-discover-earliest-foundations-Hampton-Court-Palace-800-years-ago.html
And here is a short article which appeared in the Times on October 2, by Sir Anthony Clarke, the Master of the Rolls:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4860276.ece. He makes several interesting points, and the article in general is suggestive of several ways in which medieval history still has relevance to current life and affairs...
Is anyone familiar with this author?
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4961567.ece
The Times seems to think she's very talented, but I've developed a skeptical outlook on "medieval" novels. Bernard Cornwell is sort of an exception to that skepticism...Just don't get me started on Umberto Eco's Baudolino--that book has more to do with the way Eco wishes the MA were, rather than the way sie eigentlich gewesen waren.
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