Medieval History
Like Chaucer's Wife of Bath, Mary Malloy is an adventurous woman. She has hiked across England in the footsteps of the "Canterbury Tales" character and voyaged north to Spitsbergen, Norway, and in the South Seas.
A professor of maritime history at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole who also teaches museum studies at Harvard University, she balances her academic career with a lighter pursuit: writing mysteries.
Her newest, Paradise Walk (Leapfrog Press, 286 pages, $15.95), finds historian Lizzie Manning tracing the path of Chaucer's bawdy Wife of Bath. In the vein of Dan Brown's blockbuster, "The Da Vinci Code," "Paradise Walk" entwines fiction and history.
What begins for Lizzie as a research commission to find evidence of Alison the Weaver, who may have inspired Chaucer's character, becomes a quest riddled with intrigue and danger. Woven into this mystery with textile clues are the legends of King Arthur, the relics of St. Thomas Becket and King Henry VIII's brutal dissolution of the monasteries.
Click here to read this article from Cape Cod Online
- Mischievous Monks And Naughty Nuns? Scholar Re-examines The Illicit Sexual Accusations Against Monasteries In England During The Dissolution
When King Henry VIII on England set about the dissolution of monasteries in the years 1536 to 1541, one of the main reasons given the English government for the suppression of hundreds of religious communities was accusations of widespread illicit sex...
- Scholar Discovers 16th-century Love Poem Written By An Englishwoman
A previously unknown poem dating from the mid-1500s has been discovered pasted into a rare edition of works by Geoffrey Chaucer. The erotic-love poem seems to have been by a Roman Catholic woman and sent to a Protestant scholar who was the tutor to Edward...
- Seminar On Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales Receives Funding
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a Kent State University faculty member the opportunity to give American school teachers an enriching experience abroad. Kent State English Professor Susanna Fein has won a major federal grant...
- So You Want To Read Chaucer, Part 1
Last night I attended a lecture by BYU professor Zina Peterson, who teaches medievalism. Her topic was "So You Want to Read Chaucer," and gave a wonderful introduction for the interested reader to dive into Chaucer. I'll type up my notes soon, but...
- The Rise And Fall And Rise Again Of The Mary Rose
After 34 years of service in war against the French the pride of the English Tudor Navy, fully equipped with cannons and guns of various make and construction and manned by over 500 men (and quite possibly up to 700 in 1545) many of whom were Longbowmen, met...
Medieval History
Mary Malloy taps medieval world for murder most foul
A professor of maritime history at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole who also teaches museum studies at Harvard University, she balances her academic career with a lighter pursuit: writing mysteries.
Her newest, Paradise Walk (Leapfrog Press, 286 pages, $15.95), finds historian Lizzie Manning tracing the path of Chaucer's bawdy Wife of Bath. In the vein of Dan Brown's blockbuster, "The Da Vinci Code," "Paradise Walk" entwines fiction and history.
What begins for Lizzie as a research commission to find evidence of Alison the Weaver, who may have inspired Chaucer's character, becomes a quest riddled with intrigue and danger. Woven into this mystery with textile clues are the legends of King Arthur, the relics of St. Thomas Becket and King Henry VIII's brutal dissolution of the monasteries.
Click here to read this article from Cape Cod Online
- Mischievous Monks And Naughty Nuns? Scholar Re-examines The Illicit Sexual Accusations Against Monasteries In England During The Dissolution
When King Henry VIII on England set about the dissolution of monasteries in the years 1536 to 1541, one of the main reasons given the English government for the suppression of hundreds of religious communities was accusations of widespread illicit sex...
- Scholar Discovers 16th-century Love Poem Written By An Englishwoman
A previously unknown poem dating from the mid-1500s has been discovered pasted into a rare edition of works by Geoffrey Chaucer. The erotic-love poem seems to have been by a Roman Catholic woman and sent to a Protestant scholar who was the tutor to Edward...
- Seminar On Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales Receives Funding
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a Kent State University faculty member the opportunity to give American school teachers an enriching experience abroad. Kent State English Professor Susanna Fein has won a major federal grant...
- So You Want To Read Chaucer, Part 1
Last night I attended a lecture by BYU professor Zina Peterson, who teaches medievalism. Her topic was "So You Want to Read Chaucer," and gave a wonderful introduction for the interested reader to dive into Chaucer. I'll type up my notes soon, but...
- The Rise And Fall And Rise Again Of The Mary Rose
After 34 years of service in war against the French the pride of the English Tudor Navy, fully equipped with cannons and guns of various make and construction and manned by over 500 men (and quite possibly up to 700 in 1545) many of whom were Longbowmen, met...