* Michaël de Verteuil on Michael Cerularius
* Peter Gilbert on John Bekkos (PDF)
* Jonathan Jarrett on Saint Ermengol and medieval simony
* Cantoni and Yuchtman, Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution (PDF)
Cantoni, The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation (PDF) -- I don't think this tests the Weberian hypothesis very directly at all, but it's interesting nonetheless
Acemoglu, Cantoni, Johnson, Robinson, From Ancien Régime to Capitalism (PDF)
* "Eating the Road" makes eating out easier by providing a handy flowchart. There are many delightful bits to it. (ht)
* Layman discusses Alexander and Rufus, sons of Simon of Cyrene
* An article about the years we had two Thanksgivings. Texas's reason for celebrating both was very, very Texan.
* The hundredth Philosophers' Carnival
* The 56th Carnivalesque (early modern edition)
