Well, it’s 12:15 in the morning and I’ve just finished the first draft of the paper I’m presenting at Wofford College next week. For all my haste in writing it, I’m pretty pleased with the results so far. It ain’t bad, though I do need to trim it down quite …
So I’m working today on The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament. In particular, I’m writing explanatory notes to the Book of Job, which is perhaps the most fascinating and difficult book of the Bible. (For any inclined to reinvestigate the text, I could hardly suggest a better …
What does a medievalist do on a Saturday afternoon in early September? Smash skulls? Go jousting? No, no. Better than that. He walks the hundred yards to his department building in flip-flops and ragged shorts, saunters down a quiet hall to his office, scoots past the polished and ready weaponry, …
A twice-former student of mine from my University of Rochester days, Tina Tsao, sent along notice of an article in the New York Times comparing the actions of a squirrel in right field of the Yankees’ 5-3 victory over the Red Sox Tuesday night to the figure of Ratatosk in …
What does a medievalist do, exactly? Is there more to it than brandishing swords at cowering students? Well of course there is. (Sadly?) And while things like discovering European maps of the New World that pre-date Columbus sound pretty exciting, much of my life as an academic medievalist is spent …