The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook has been available for purchase for a few weeks now in the UK. Alas, the one downside to publishing on that side of the pond — in this case through the awesome University of Exeter Press — is that it takes a bit for …
Lois Tilton has just published a review of Black Gate 15 for Locus Online. Included is a nice little review of my latest short story, “Purging Cocytus”: Horror, in a setting that is more SF than fantasy. Danny’s grandfather has been in cryonic suspension but is now revived and has …
I was quite pleased today to find my copy of Black Gate 15 in my mailbox. The magazine is gorgeous, of course, and it’s filled with terrific writing and artwork. I’ve only read about a quarter of it so far — the issue is nearly 400 pages thick! — but …
In my last entry about the life of a medievalist, I tried to show what it means to “edit” a medieval text. If you haven’t read it, I suggest you go do that now so that you’ll understand how we got from this: to this: In this begynnyng god uus …
According to the “Faculty and Staff” listing of my department here at The Citadel, I specialize in Medieval Literature. That’s true, of course, but it’s also misleading. Most medievalists will define Medieval Literature as works produced in at least a dozen languages between the years 500 and 1500 anywhere from …