Medieval History
The rooms are as spartan (uh, medieval) as ever, the geese are still here (terrifying), and I've already heard one scholar opining vigorously about Byzantine porridge. Ah, it's Kalamazoo. 3000 medievalists on the Western Michigan University campus. But good Lord, how did I not realize this: it's my twentieth Kalamazoo. May 1992 was my very first one, with beloved Michael Camille and his bright red dancing shoes. I miss him every year (and oof, it's been ten since he died). Meanwhile, as per every Kalamazoo, it is too late considering the meeting at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow, but you get excited, you know? Tomorrow at 10 a.m. I am speaking on a roundtable filled with every intellectual crush I have - these are phenomenal people - generous, brilliant, phenomenal people - and I can't quite sleep to think of it. I chose the term "hewn," a boundless word, I now think. And then at 3:30 p.m., I'm giving a full fledged paper on an "Art and Devotion in England" panel - that's the one in which the geological conditions of alabaster call the shots. And my beautiful friend of almost twenty years is here - we met in Siena on a Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi trip (that's when all the stained glass scholars of the world unite - on two buses - and go see stained glass in situ). Saturday, we're going to steal away to the alabaster show. Full report on the magical stone, I promise.
- Come Up To The Table
BN ms.fr. 2810, fol. 136vLast day of "Monsters and Marvels" activity (great presentations on the collaborative writing of Monsterfestos done through Facebook and GoogleDocs) - and so a celebration with a medieval menu based on the class: for Beowulf:...
- So Excited
I can hardly sleep for how excited I am about tomorrow. It's not the student presentations on Jerusalem (although I'm sure those will be swell), and no, it's not the grading. Rather, I'm having lunch with two really nice colleagues, a...
- Going In
Hey, what do you know? The post re-appeared! Students and the kids have asked what Kalamazoo is like (my adult friends shudder too much to think what 3,000 medievalists gathering on a university campus might be like to ask), so here come a few super...
- Here!
Abode Humble AbodeDang it! Blogger (the Entity, the Thing) lost a wee post that I'd written on my iPhone. So much for hipness - I will just go back to typing quickly and look for my carrier pigeon. I AM AT KALAMAZOO! Here are small mentions...
- Pilfered Glass From Manchester And Elsewhere
Messingham, Lincolnshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.This lovely little figure is in the east window of Messingham church in Lincolnshire, where it sits among a whole host of fascinating fragments of medieval stained glass. When I first saw this...
Medieval History
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- Come Up To The Table
BN ms.fr. 2810, fol. 136vLast day of "Monsters and Marvels" activity (great presentations on the collaborative writing of Monsterfestos done through Facebook and GoogleDocs) - and so a celebration with a medieval menu based on the class: for Beowulf:...
- So Excited
I can hardly sleep for how excited I am about tomorrow. It's not the student presentations on Jerusalem (although I'm sure those will be swell), and no, it's not the grading. Rather, I'm having lunch with two really nice colleagues, a...
- Going In
Hey, what do you know? The post re-appeared! Students and the kids have asked what Kalamazoo is like (my adult friends shudder too much to think what 3,000 medievalists gathering on a university campus might be like to ask), so here come a few super...
- Here!
Abode Humble AbodeDang it! Blogger (the Entity, the Thing) lost a wee post that I'd written on my iPhone. So much for hipness - I will just go back to typing quickly and look for my carrier pigeon. I AM AT KALAMAZOO! Here are small mentions...
- Pilfered Glass From Manchester And Elsewhere
Messingham, Lincolnshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.This lovely little figure is in the east window of Messingham church in Lincolnshire, where it sits among a whole host of fascinating fragments of medieval stained glass. When I first saw this...