Medieval History
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 for now I want to post a link to a BBC program about medieval life in England that Dr. Peterson recommended, called "The Story of England." I can't find an affordable way to watch it here in the US, and until I do, I watched "Christina, a Medieval Life." It is fabulous, and around 20 minutes in, there is a wonderful illuminated manuscript that definitely worth seeing.
- London Chaucer Conference 2015: All The Tweets #chaucer2015
All the tweets (in chronological order) from the Biennial London Chaucer Conference, held at Senate House Library, 10-11 July 2015. [Note: this captures only tweets using the official confernece hashtag #Chaucer2015][View the story "London Chaucer Conference...
- 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...
- Mary Malloy Taps Medieval World For Murder Most Foul
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...
- 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...
- Medievalisms Encountered
I just finished up teaching my summer literature course. It was a general fiction course, but I decided to take it a little easy on myself and teach mostly books I've done before, with the exception of Neil Gaman's Sandman....at least part of...
Medieval History
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 for now I want to post a link to a BBC program about medieval life in England that Dr. Peterson recommended, called "The Story of England." I can't find an affordable way to watch it here in the US, and until I do, I watched "Christina, a Medieval Life." It is fabulous, and around 20 minutes in, there is a wonderful illuminated manuscript that definitely worth seeing.
- London Chaucer Conference 2015: All The Tweets #chaucer2015
All the tweets (in chronological order) from the Biennial London Chaucer Conference, held at Senate House Library, 10-11 July 2015. [Note: this captures only tweets using the official confernece hashtag #Chaucer2015][View the story "London Chaucer Conference...
- 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...
- Mary Malloy Taps Medieval World For Murder Most Foul
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...
- 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...
- Medievalisms Encountered
I just finished up teaching my summer literature course. It was a general fiction course, but I decided to take it a little easy on myself and teach mostly books I've done before, with the exception of Neil Gaman's Sandman....at least part of...