by KARL STEEL We’ve all faced and perhaps all been the nervous presenter. Today I hit upon what might be the perfect solution. I suggested…
While looking for Paris, Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 0020, I found a manuscript of Jacques Bauchant’s French translation of the visions of Elizabeth of Schönau (Bibliothèque nationale de…
From the Friar’s Tale, Jill Mann ed. “Thow lixt! quod she, ‘By my savacioun, Ne was I nevere er now, widwe ne wif, Somoned unto…
On the question of whether all life could spring up again spontaneously from putrefaction if a universal flood covered and drowned the earth, (pseudo) Albert…
I may be the very last one to recognize the genius in Mozart offhandedly giving his most beautiful song to two sincerely anxious fiancées and…
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…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SQIXUccNl0] Thinking ahead to the two Chaucer classes I’ll be teaching this Fall, and back to a tweet from several years back: The Maniciple’s Tale,…
Realized just now: students love to talk about character motivation (“I bet Palemon was really happy that Arcite died. I know I would have been.”)…
