Michael R. Davis
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher, Writer, Lawyer |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I am a medieval historian, lawyer, novelist and teacher and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. My books are available on Amazon and via PublishAmerica http://www.publishamerica.com/ |
| Interests | Cultural interests and hobbies: Classical music (with an emphasis on the Baroque), Blues, Medieval History (European and Japanese), Airedale Terriers. Vices and food interests; Cuban and good quallity Honduran cigars, Chili peppers, handcrafted ales, single malt scotch, burgundies, bordeauxs, armagac. |
| Favorite Movies | Where to start. Most films by or with: Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn, Toshiro Mifune, The Seventh Seal, Casablanca, Becket, A Lion in Winter, The African Queen, Maltese Falcon; Films by Jan Svankmajer, Old black and whilte horror and science fiction, (especially Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi), Cave of the Yellow Dog, Story of the Weeping Camel, Heaven and Earth (Haruki Kadokawa), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Original Star Wars, Star Trek, The Chronicles of Anna Magdelena, Fish Called Wanda, Fierce Creatures |
| Favorite Music | Anything by; Johann Sebastian Bach, his sons. Perfomers and conductors: Ton Koopman, Nicolas Harnoncourt, Gustav Leonhardt, Karl Richter, Herbert Karajan. Other Baroque artists include; Telemann, Corelli, Handel, Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Corelli, Tartini, Couperin, Byrd, Gibbons, Vivialdi, Boyce, Albonini, Lully, Buxtehude, Fux, Rameau, Torelli, Susato, Purcell, Boismortier, Sammartini, Pachebel, Fasch, Psindel, Zelenka, Symphonies of: Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler, Neilsen, Vaughn-Williams, W.A. Mozart, Haydn, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Buffett, Eagles, Storyville, Alan Parsons Project, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Edward Elgar, Gary Moore, James Taylor, Jethro Tull, Johnny Lang, Keane, Jem, Moody Blues, Rachmaninoff, Robert Cray, Alabama 3, Shostakovich, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Travelling Wilburys, Vivaldi and a host of other rock, blues and classical (MY MOTTO IF IT AIN'T BAROQUE..DON'T FIX IT). In Extremo and Corvus Corax...a great combo of heavy metal and medieval music... |
| Favorite Books | The Cardinal (Morton Robinson), Too Serve them all my days (R.F. Delderfield), The Book of Five Rings (Miyamoto Musashi). Sarum (Edward Rutherford), Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett), The Lord of the Rings & the Hobbit (Tolkein), Flashman series (George MacDonald Fraser), The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis (Marjorie Chibnall, ed). Henry II (W.L. Warren), King Stephen (David Crouch), Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), Heart of Understanding (Thich Nhat Hanh), I Claudius and Claudius the God and Messalina (Robert Graves), Poetry by Rumi, Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, Arlington Robinson, David Whyte, E.E. Cummings and T.S. Eliot. |