With all the illness hereabouts — I was struck down with the norovirus after all — and quite a bit of backlogged grading to slog through, I’m rather tardy in relaying the fact that the Brunanburh Casebook is out of my hands. The book clocked in at over 440 pages …
For the past couple of years I have been laboring on a new book about the historical Battle of Brunanburh. I’m happy to report that the end is in sight. The project involves contributors from around the world, and over the past couple of days I have turned over to …
I’ve been working all-hours for some weeks now on the Battle of Brunanburh book. It’s terrific stuff, and we’re making real progress. No NaNoWriMo for me, I’m doing Local Academic Editing Month (LoAcEdMo). I don’t much talk about this part of my life, since it’s rather boring to most folks, …
One of my long-term projects around here has been a “casebook” about the Battle of Brunanburh, which is bringing together scholars from around the globe. It’s in a somewhat advanced state at this point, and I’ve been working on my introductory chapter for the book as a result. I’ve written …
The book on the Battle of Brunanburh that I’m putting together is coming together quite nicely. Today found me deep into the Old English materials, which was fun. It did throw me another curveball, though, as I had to grapple with how to represent a few runic letters in the …