Medieval History
Please find Candace Robb?s review of Julie Chappell?s Perilous Passages: The Book of Margery Kempe, 1534-1934. Palgrave MacMillan, 2013, at medievally speaking. The review was curated by Michael Evans:
The one required course in my graduate program was Introduction to Graduate Research, designed to inspire and intimidate. The texts were the MLA Stylesheet, A Chicago Manual of Style, a pamphlet on the graduate research paper, and The Scholar Adventurers: enduring account of literature?s most famous research puzzles by Richard D. Altick.[1] We were to read Altick before the first class. A brilliant strategy: with chapter headings such as "The Secret of the Ebony Cabinet" and "Exit a Lady, Enter Another," Altick presented literary research as detective work.
Julie Chappell?s Perilous Passages: The Book of Margery Kempe, 1534-1934, brought back that sense of adventure for me, and it is no accident: as Altick echoed detective novels in his chapter titles, Chappell references...
- Teresa Rupp Reviews: Medieval Afterlives In Contemporary Culture, Ed. G. Ashton
Gail Ashton, ed. Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. Reviewed by Teresa Rupp ([email protected]) The formulation of the Middle Ages as the medium aevum, ?the time in the middle,? presupposes that its time...
- Medievally Speaking Reviews: Montoya, Medievalist Enlightenment; Nagel, Medieval Modern; And Stromberg, Maleficent
Please find the following new reviews on Medievally Speaking (http://medievallyspeaking.blogspot.com/): Alicia C. Montoya. Medievalist Enlightenment: From Charles Perrault to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013. 256pp. Reviewed by...
- Swan Reviews Dinshaw; Heisler Reviews Keymeulen/tollebeek
Two new reviews in Medievally Speaking:Jesse Swan, in a review entitled "Dinshaw Glue and Other Queer Products of Attachment," speaks about Carolyn Dinshaw's How Soon is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time (Durham:...
- Tondro On Kid Beowulf; Mcshane On Meddle English; And Harty On The Heart Of Robin Hood
Please check these three new reviews in Medievally Speaking:Alexis E. Fajardo, Kid Beowulf. 3 vols. Bowler Hat Comics / Kid Beowulf Comics, 2008-2013, reviewed by Jason Tondro. The review was curated by Ilse Schweitzer-VanDonkelaar.Caroline...
- Salisbury And Schulman Join Advisory Board Of Medievally Speaking
Eve Salisbury and Jana Schulman, both medievalists at Western Michigan University, have recently joined the advisory board of Medievally Speaking, the online review arm of Studies in Medievalism, the leading publication investigating the ongoing reception...
Medieval History
Robb Reviews Chappell, Perilous Passages
The one required course in my graduate program was Introduction to Graduate Research, designed to inspire and intimidate. The texts were the MLA Stylesheet, A Chicago Manual of Style, a pamphlet on the graduate research paper, and The Scholar Adventurers: enduring account of literature?s most famous research puzzles by Richard D. Altick.[1] We were to read Altick before the first class. A brilliant strategy: with chapter headings such as "The Secret of the Ebony Cabinet" and "Exit a Lady, Enter Another," Altick presented literary research as detective work.
Julie Chappell?s Perilous Passages: The Book of Margery Kempe, 1534-1934, brought back that sense of adventure for me, and it is no accident: as Altick echoed detective novels in his chapter titles, Chappell references...
- Teresa Rupp Reviews: Medieval Afterlives In Contemporary Culture, Ed. G. Ashton
Gail Ashton, ed. Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. Reviewed by Teresa Rupp ([email protected]) The formulation of the Middle Ages as the medium aevum, ?the time in the middle,? presupposes that its time...
- Medievally Speaking Reviews: Montoya, Medievalist Enlightenment; Nagel, Medieval Modern; And Stromberg, Maleficent
Please find the following new reviews on Medievally Speaking (http://medievallyspeaking.blogspot.com/): Alicia C. Montoya. Medievalist Enlightenment: From Charles Perrault to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013. 256pp. Reviewed by...
- Swan Reviews Dinshaw; Heisler Reviews Keymeulen/tollebeek
Two new reviews in Medievally Speaking:Jesse Swan, in a review entitled "Dinshaw Glue and Other Queer Products of Attachment," speaks about Carolyn Dinshaw's How Soon is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time (Durham:...
- Tondro On Kid Beowulf; Mcshane On Meddle English; And Harty On The Heart Of Robin Hood
Please check these three new reviews in Medievally Speaking:Alexis E. Fajardo, Kid Beowulf. 3 vols. Bowler Hat Comics / Kid Beowulf Comics, 2008-2013, reviewed by Jason Tondro. The review was curated by Ilse Schweitzer-VanDonkelaar.Caroline...
- Salisbury And Schulman Join Advisory Board Of Medievally Speaking
Eve Salisbury and Jana Schulman, both medievalists at Western Michigan University, have recently joined the advisory board of Medievally Speaking, the online review arm of Studies in Medievalism, the leading publication investigating the ongoing reception...