My daughter the History nerd

[speaker_to_customers]

Belated happy birthday to bookfanatic; happy birthday (and welcome back!) to waywardchilde.

My daughter, who is studying History at York University, received an Amazon delivery of a book ‘Heresies in the High Middle Ages’. This led to a conversation between us about the Cathars and then about the Hussites. In discussing the Hussites she came up with the concept of a Hussite uprising amongst the Daleks.

“De-fen-est-rate! De-fen-est-rate! You will be de-fen-est-rated!”

Comments

[cat63.livejournal.com]

::giggles::

Splendid! "defenestration" is a good word too :-)

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

One of my favourite words.

[quinara]

Hee! Now that would have been a lot more appropriate for BBC teatime...

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

"Ed-u-cate! Ed-u-cate! You will be ed-u-cated!"

[quinara]

*shivers in fear*

[kathyh]

LOL.

For some reason I find something incredibly pleasing about the word "defenestrate" and the thought of a Dalek saying it makes it even better.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[gillo]

Daleks in Prague. (What's Czech for "Exterminate" I wonder?)

The heresies book sounds fun, with all those Bulgars, Cathars and other silly Bogomils. A crossover with Dr Hus perhaps?

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Vyvraždit! Vyvraždit

[evilawyer.livejournal.com]

The historic past collides with the fictional future.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

...in a crash of breaking glass.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

I think you guys may have broken my brain with that one. Gah!

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Heh!

[ayinhara.livejournal.com]

That looks like an interesting book. I added it to my amazon wishlist. Has D-d read Eco's The Name of the Rose? That's where I first ran into some of these heresies: Bogomils, etc. Albigensians I already knew something about.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

D-d likes books in theory but the actual reading, not so much. As a wargamer I know about almost all heresies that resulted in violent conflict.

[timeofchange.livejournal.com]

Heee!

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

It's a shame that we had so little time together at Reading; I hadn't expected to end up so far away from you at the meal.

[bookfanatic]

Thanks!

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Love your icon!

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

There's nothing like a fun Dalek icon!

[waywardchilde.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the birthday shout! It's good to be back.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Good to see you back!

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

I kept thinking of this conversation when I was at work today, and it made me smile.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Ex-cell-ent!