Picking up from yesterday: ….I will develop this idea in more detail below, but what must be done, first, is to argue against death being…
Today I offer my essay’s introduction (first draft!) with the hope of providing the next section tomorrow or Friday. The bulk of the rest of…
I couldn’t have done better on purpose. Yesterday afternoon, my wife and I set out to join a couple ten thousand of our Union allies…
Over the past week, I’ve been working on a piece on Chaucer’s “The Former Age” (Middle English; translation), primitivism, and pigs. I need 5000 words…
[youtube=http://youtu.be/EENw_ptgGcg?t=3m49s] Today’s undergrad Middle English Lit class covered Sir Orfeo lines 1-330 (until Orfeo rediscovers Heurodis). A student had proposed that Heurodis (Eurydice to you)…
One of my favorite students (and not only for the gifts!) today gave me an enormous Purim box (honey, cookies, booze, tea, kazoo, the whole…
If you were up at 9am on a Siena Monday, and decided to head out to the train station, you might have heard the latest…
by KARL STEEL First! More zombies! Second, thanks very much to our guest bloggers (and to Jeffrey’s organizational moxie) for what’s become a brief history…
Last week, I read the Man of Law’s Tale (hereafter MLT) for the second time (I think) and taught it for the first (I should…
There was a pattern in my students’ papers on The Knight’s Tale. Those who had read the Mark Sherman chapter, “Chivalry,” in the Oxford Chaucer…
