Perhaps no better statement about the craziness of this week can be made than the simple fact that this moment — 11:42pm on Wednesday — is the first chance I’ve had to sit down and take a breath for many days. Alas, it is only the big gulp of air …
A clip of Benjamin Bagby reciting the opening of Beowulf in Old English with his own Anglo-Saxon harp accompaniment. (This one’s for you, Ken!)
A long time without much Chaucerin’. Blame is shared, no doubt, by the time-crunch of the semester and the mental wipe-out that followed the completion of The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament. A few spare minutes at this turn of the year, however, have put me in …
My Chaucer’d Scalzi made a fair bit of noise hereabouts last week, and many folks have written to ask for a bit more. In craven heat for such attention, I could hardly wait to do another. The question was, what to Chaucer? Several kind readers made several kind suggestions — …
It has been suggested, among other things, that I consider Chaucerin’ a recent mega-double-chocolate-bestselling novel by Hack Bro… I mean, Dan Brown: The DaVinci Code. Or, as I term it, The DuhVinci Code. The sins of this book — both from a writer’s perspective and an academic one — have …