“This proclamation made the people of St Albans, who had been in revolt for a long time in their struggle for liberty, the slaves of a…
found this via Margaret Aston. Lollards and Reformers: Images and Literacy in Late Medieval Religion (Hambledon Press, 1984), 110, who summarizes some of this passage like…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LwE38qbylM?fs=1 You’ll remember how “Bisclavret” begins: Quant de lais faire m’entremet ne voil ubliër Bisclavret. Bisclavret a nun en Bretan, Garwalf l’apelant li Norman. Jadis le…
Briefly, two points from medieval English Law. From Bracton (13th century), from a section on “What wreck is; and concerning great fish, that is, sturgeon…
Where have I been? Apart from surviving the shock of the semester’s start, and suffering the siege of many writing projects, apparently all due at…
Maybe you know what to do with the Arthurian opening of the Wife of Bath’s tale. I don’t, not quite, but then again, I’ve only…
Another book that suffers from a misleading title and unfortunate institutional pressures. It’s not a ‘Medieval Literature’ book; nor is it really even a ‘British’…
Been quiet around these parts. Here’s a placeholder QOTD to supplement our various posts on heterogeneity and the English past (for example, here and here).…
