and make the subject daffodils
And here we finish the play! I'll tell you one other interesting thing about Hrosvithe of Gandersheim and her work: From the end of the 15th century, printing companies used to have exclusive rights to print copies of particular books for a certain length of time, granted either by a monarch or the Pope. The …
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This is, I guess, off topic. And I was going to put up the last part of the Virgin Martyrs tonight, but while I was out at the department's Christmas party, someone checked Facebook or whatever gave them the news, and told us that Nelson Mandela had died. He was, of course, quite old--ninety-five--and had …
Here is the long-promised second part to Hrosvithe of Gandersheim's play Dulcitius. There will be one part after this, just to wrap everything up neatly. It's been a while, so here is part I again. This is a closet drama, so was likely never meant to be actually performed but rather read aloud in a …
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A cardinal sin in the blogging world, I know, to let a thing lie for so long! I'm sorry for that--I finished my thesis, and submitted it, and the fact is there is very little space for blogging at the end of that process. Or eating, sleeping, and showering regularly, for that matter. But it's …
I have one more week of PhD-thesis-writinghood, which is why the total radio silence. But as it's freshers' week (or induction week, as my uni has recently decided to rename it), I thought re-linking a couple of older posts might be useful.Five ways to Survive Freshers' WeekDealing with HousematesOnward and upward!
So last weekend, the BBC's sort-of-like-Game-of-Thrones-but-less-horrifying drama The White Queen finished off the season, with a rather gruesome Battle of Bosworth Field. Despite dodgy set design, frustrating characters, and a, shall we say, laissez-faire approach to history, I liked it, and I'm a bit disappointed it's over for the summer. This is why. Promo picture …
We interrupt the usual slow dribble of medievalness to bring you a very important notice. Please read to the end, and please take a few minutes out of your day to add your voice. When I came home from my trip to England the other day, I saw this attached to a lamppost outside my …
While getting the rest of the Dulcitius in order, here is something else to look at! Some time ago I wrote a guest post for the indomitable Nadine Muller for her new series on 'my first time in academia'. It is the story of a young researcher's first conference adventure, wherein she spent several hours …
Thesis progress: THE END IS IN SIGHT. So in the meantime, I am here to bring you something totally unrelated to it! Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim was a Benedictine nun at Gandersheim, a very posh convent in Germany, and a writer of plays that were probably never performed. She would be this formidable lady here. Her …
I know it's been quiet--I'm meant to have my thesis draft done by the end of next week, and I think I can make it! But it means I've been too exhausted to also tell cool historical stories. Also--here is my shameless plug--I'm trying to raise the money to go to an intensive Welsh course …
a medievalist errant 