Shared five-star honors for two simply gorgeously illustrated coffee table books full of facts and knowledge about medieval monastery life (Benedictine and otherwise), the healing arts of the medieval monks, and the plants they used. Must-reads not only for fans of Ellis Peters’s Brother Cadfael series but for anyone interested in the Middle Ages, monastic history, social history in general, botany, medicine, and pharmacy.
Incidentally, a third book by this pair of authors — Cadfael Country: Shropshire & the Welsh Borders — provided, together with Ellis Peters’s own Strongholds and Sanctuaries: The Borderland of England and Wales, important information and stimuli for the “Welsh borderland” part of my trip to Britain in late July 2017, and will certainly be consulted again should I make good on my plan to spend some time in Wales proper some day.
I just wanted to mention that at the moment, I won’t be able to blog here, since I don’t know how to handle the new editor. If I manage to figure it out, I’ll keep blogging here, if not, I may not be able to. For the time being, I’ll just post on Tumblr and Dreamwidth.
You can still use the classic editor — I have no plans of using the block editor, and if they ever make it compulsory, I’ll be out of here like a shot.
Your classic editor dashboard is at
https:// [blog name] .wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php
(It should translate as
https://veganlynx.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php
in your case, but better make sure.)
Find and bookmark that page, then work from there!
Thanks. 🙂 Well, that looks ok. And now I’ve told a number of my followers here that I won’t be blogging here for a while. LOL. It was a short while. The book review I planned on posting will be out soon. 🙂