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w «ce «o+ PA Medieval blog entnes the foundation of Miftonian‘s first book By Julie Slack CANADIAN CHAMPION STAFF Using humour and witty topics, Milâ€" ton‘s Daniele Cybulskie has made the | middle ages fun with her new book. The Fiveâ€"Minute Medievalist is a book | she compiled using articles she wrote for the muchâ€"loved website Medievalists.net. The book includes 13 of those online articles along | with two new ones, all of which are about 700 to 1,000 words each. A mother of two girls, six and eight | * years old, Cybulskie got into writing | about all things Middle Ages after | she graduated in 2008. Initially, it | started as a blog on her own, which she stopped when life got busy. That‘s when she was contacted by the owner of Medievalist.net, Peter | Konieczny. Turned out, he was just | a few minutes away in Oakville and they quickly became friends and partnered on the website. Cybulskie said she thinks the midâ€" | dle ages became popular mostly because of Lord of the Rings, but for her, her love of all things medieval began with a fascination over Sleepâ€" ing Beauty and Robin Hood. The Milton author grew up in Sudâ€" bury and went to visit Scotland, which she loved, in part because of | all it history. She studied cultural studies in Engâ€" lish in medieval literature at Trent | University in Peterborough, but when she started pursuing a masâ€" ter‘s degree, she discovered that one can specialize in medieval studâ€" ies; she was then attending the Uniâ€" versity of Toronto where she spent countless hours in the library â€" the llANCE P " medieval library to be speciic. she said. But all good things come tc an end and once she had finished her studâ€" ies in English literature, medieval literature and Rzenaissance drama, she found herself at home, expectâ€" ing her first child. HOUSE 547 Main St. E, Unit 16â€"17, Mitton 905â€"876â€"8988 www.appliancehouse.ca M xi o _ Nee "They have a really great library," "Instead of digging through these amazing libraries, | started a blog at home," she explained, adding her posts and blogs were getting thousands of hits. The rest is history not quite medieval, but history nonetheless. Now, with her first book out, she finds herself surprised a little, but 2l Quantities lust! *L '- Wh While Quantities Last! [ # * ie â€"mflâ€"w i n in 1e Your $Smart Shopping App excited about the future. Also a teacher through Ontario Learn â€" an onine platform that connects colleges across Ontario â€" Cybulskie said her book is about the "interestâ€" ing stuff people want to know about the Middle Ages â€"like what they ate, what they loved, what their sex lives were like â€" so that regular, 28 Whirtpoot SAVE iL % l l $2 }, | While Quantities Last! it Thinking of Selling or Buying in 20162 Sales Repr Pl_'gReaI y Orr: 905â€"693â€"9575 Dar: 905â€"691â€"9874 oC prorealty.com Milton‘s Daniele CySulskie detves into whét life was really like in the Middle Ages in her book The Fiveâ€"Minute Medievalist. Julie Slack / Canadian Champion nonâ€"academic people can have their questions answered. "It‘s fun, interesting trivia, the type of which people always want to know about after watching a medieval show like Game of Thrones," she said. The book is avail>â€"ble on Amazon. ca, Kobo.ca and www.danielecybulâ€" skie.com. KitchenAid » | NOIIWVHI NVIGYNYI NOLTIMW | gToz ‘gt isngny Aepsiny} | 6g