Just published. My new book on Early English texts, including The Grave; on language, history, fiction, Magna Carta, script, and the date of the Tremulous Hand. @ArcHumanities — thank you!
Yesterday, someone asked me about progress on Book 3 & I had to be vague, so I went and checked. 49,300 words. But are they clean, well-organised words? Ah, well, let's not overdo the precision.
📢New book alert! 📕"The Old English Gnomic Poems Maxims I and Maxims II" ✍️Kazutomo Karasawa 📲Available: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....#⃣#medievalsky#OldEnglish#academicsky#skybrarians#booksky#TOEBI#poetry
This is your reminder that thesaurus dot com is (almost certainly) using AI to generate thesaurus entries, and you should, if you can, use Merriam Webster to avoid accidentally destroying the planet via the fuckery machine.
An exciting book by @lauraashe.bsky.socialglobal.oup.com/academic/pro.... I think I once heard a sliver of this as a paper, and I suspect it’ll give us all much food for thought! (Also, if I can be a superficial codicologist for a moment, what a cover…)
MERG returns! The Middle English Reading Group, reading Troilus and Criseyde, Fridays 3-4pm in termtime.
If you ever fear your argument's getting too focused, remind yourself of the (good! useful!) *whole monograph* about three stanzas of rhyme royal by Thomas Wyatt: www.sup.org/books/title/...
Thomas Wyatt didn't publish They Flee from Me. It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthology. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murp...
Neat-looking 1-year postdoc at Purdue: help run the Digital Index of Middle English Verse, and help catalogue manuscripts of the indispensable Prick of Conscience. careers.purdue.edu/job/Ross-Lyn... The listed d-line is 30 September, but I'm told it should shortly be amended to 18 October.
New this week: I've an article in Pedagogy & Profession detailing how I wrote How to Read Middle English Poetry: doi.org/10.5070/NC35... Includes some discussion of thinking through audience, pitching to press, &c.
Author(s): Sawyer, Daniel | Abstract: Various practical challenges deter scholars from writing single-author teaching books, but such books have particular virtues to offer pedagogy. This article desc...
I have a chapter in this collection, /Books, Readers, and Libraries in Fiction/, due out early 2025! uolpress.co.uk/book/books-r... (In fact, I have the Medievalist's Privilege, the first chapter.)
It is easy to find books and libraries within fiction from the earliest times onwards in works for all age groups, in canonical literature and in books that form part of popular culture. From Don Quix...