May 23, 2017
It has been a real pleasure to edit the rollicking Historie of Squyer Meldrum for the forthcoming METS volume Six Scottish Pieces: Courtly and Chivalric Poems, Including Lyndsay’s ‘Squyer Meldrum,’… READ MORE
April 25, 2017
Review: Richard Utz, Medievalism: A Manifesto (Kalamazoo and Bradford: ARC Humanities Press, 2017). 95 pages, $15.00/£11.99. https://www.arc-humanities.org/products/m-77101-116111-24-8211/. Reviewed by Paul B. Sturtevant ([email protected]) Over the past generation, the humanities have… READ MORE
April 22, 2017
Middle English writers, regardless of their knowledge of classical myth, occasionally swap genders of characters in Christine de Pizan’s Epistre Othea (c. 1400), a work in which Christine’s invented goddess… READ MORE
April 17, 2017
When looking at the history of the eleventh-century commercial upturn in the Mediterranean – which accompanied a similar upturn in the North Sea, focussed on Flanders – many historians have… READ MORE
April 9, 2017
As avid lovers of all things dark and spooky, Elizaveta Strakhov and I are thrilled to be editing a volume of Middle English poems on death. The centerpiece of our… READ MORE
March 23, 2017
A Lydgatian Christine de Pizan?: The Lytle Bibell of Knyghthod (c. 1450) One would not expect that Christine de Pizan could be confused easily with John Lydgate, and yet the… READ MORE
March 17, 2017
“Here follows her epitaph […] translated into the Scottish tongue” Princess Margaret of Scotland (d. 1445) PART 2 As I observed in my previous post, the Older Scots Complaint for… READ MORE
March 16, 2017
“She was busy writing rondeaux […] which was not good for her” Princess Margaret of Scotland (d. 1445) PART 1 (and part 2) In our forthcoming METS edition, Six Scottish… READ MORE
March 4, 2017
In his painting, Children’s Games (1559), Flemish artist Peter Bruegel the Elder, famous for his works depicting the popular, ludic world of peasants, illustrated at least eighty different games that… READ MORE
February 28, 2017
As I worked on editing and translating the verse and prose contents of MS Harley 2253, a recurring pleasure and intrigue rested in trying to spot the literary tricks of… READ MORE