The semester is in full swing here at The Citadel, which has clearly made my life busy again and contributed a bit to the quiet hereabouts. But that’s not the only thing that’s been happening. Earlier this year I was asked to be the Associate Director of the Honors Program, …
I’ve been so busy — pleasantly so, what with going to Wales and all — that I somehow missed the fact that my short story “Purging Cocytus” has earned a second review (you may recall that the first review, from Lois Tilton, was quite good). This time the kind words …
Look what I got in the mail today: Yessir, that there’s my long-awaited (by me and some other geeky Middle English scholars!) edition of The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament (MEMPOT), available now from Medieval Institute Publications. I’d been told by the press that I’d be getting …
I’ve been trying to get a lot of work done in a rather short window of time, but there must be time for a good chuckle now and again, too. Herewith, an interpretive dance of The Killers’ excellent song “Human,” from a BBC game show: 🙂
I’ve been getting a lot of email from folks interested in the search for Brunanburh. Many of them are a bit mad at me and the other contributors to The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook, and for that I blame more than anyone else a monk who died around 870 …