Things Noted Here & There

Carnivalesque LXV, an ancient/medieval edition of the festival, is up at Jonathan Jarrett's A Corner of Tenth Century Europe. Cliopatria's friend, Sharon Howard, is looking for hosts for both History Carnival and Carnivalesque this fall and winter. She wants to hear from you.

Jonathan Yardley reviews Lucy Worsley's The Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue at Kensington Palace for the Washington Post, 22 August.

Elaine Showalter reviews Ilyon Woo's The Great Divorce: A 19th-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times for the Washington Post, 22 August.

John Pollard reviews Herbert Wolf's Pope and Devil: the Vatican's Archives and the Third Reich, translated by Kenneth Kronenberg, for the THE, 19 August. Wolf,"Why Did the Pope Keep Quiet about Hitler?" Foreign Policy, 6 May, is an excerpt from the book.

Seamus Perry,"Parody, the vile art," TLS, 18 August, reviews John Gross, ed., The Oxford Book of Parodies.

Finally, Dave Stone notes that, while he's been on"sick leave" from the University of London's Birkbeck College, Orlando Figes is out and about, most recently seenlast week, lecturing at Chile'sUniversidad Gabriela Mistral.