Green Children of Woolpit 5: Parallels January 26, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
Beach must start with apologies. He promised four posts on the green children but he was not able to contain himself. Here, then, is a fifth dreamt up in the outer rings of fever in the last couple of days (flu now been ravaging for a week). Beach set himself a simple question: to what […]
Brazen Heads and Medieval Robots? March 7, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Medieval, Modern
In the Middle Ages there emerged two kinds of artificial humans into the Christian imagination: the real thing needs, unfortunately, to be dismissed with Aztec jet planes and Pharonic nuclear bombs. First there were moving statues, brass and gold figures that were somtimes found guarding treasure hordes or, what might loosely be called, fairyland. These […]
