William Dunbar’s “My ladye with the mekle lippis,” is a parodic insult poem, possibly directed at Elen More or the other Black woman at the…
The book whose paragraph I quote, and whose name I forgot, is from Willie James Jennings’ The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race.…
One embarrassing mistake here: I used the German verb “heißen” [to mean or to be called] as modern relative of the Middle English “hight” [was…
The copy of the King of Tars in the Auchinleck manuscript opens with a rare illustration, rare in that it’s in the manuscript at all…
There are many earlier versions of the King of Tars story, and to my knowledge, none have yet been translated into modern English (or any other…
Fredric Jameson’s chapter “On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act” from his The Political Unconscious returns often, and surprisingly, to the Middle Ages. As he argues…
Here is sample presentation. Note that I quickly summarize Orlemanski’s argument, provide a key quote, and then connect her work to my own research interests,…
