America has George Washington. Scotland has William Wallace of Braveheart fame. France has Joan of Arc. Wales has Owain Glyndwr, who is in some measure all three at once. As I write in the Introduction to the just-published Owain Glyndwr: A Casebook — a 620-page resource of materials on this fascinating medieval …
I love to travel, but I don’t like to fly. It’s not that I’m claustrophobic or pteromerhanophobic or anything like that … I just find that flying is discomforting. Too much of it is like a drawn-out cattle call. Add in the recycled air, the lack of decent seating, the …
In case you’ve been wondering where I’ve been … well, in large part, this is where: That’s right: I have another book coming out. In just a few weeks, in fact! This book, built along the same lines as my very successful Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook, once again has …
I’ve been quiet of late, mostly because I’ve had several projects all coming to fruition more or less at the same time, followed by the end-of-term throes that I’m slogging through right now. Managing to get it all done put me in shut-up-and-work mode for a few months. The last …
School started today, which meant a number of students coming to my office to ask what I thought about the new Hobbit movie. The short answer is I liked it. . . . The long answer — indeed, the long-winded long answer of a scholar who publishes on medieval literature, …