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Habent sua fata libelli
The history of medieval studies can teach us much about our existing and continuing practices and traditions. Before it became an...

Medievalitas
Jun 51 min read
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Third Reich Medievalists: National Psychology and the Study of Chaucer
Recent piece for medievalists.net: We are in Germany in 1933: After the assimilation of the military, civil service, and the judiciary,...

Medievalitas
May 201 min read
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Last visit with King Arthur
Review published with Arthuriana 35.1 (2025): 132-35. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/960022 Michel Pastoureau, Dernière visite chez le Roi...

Medievalitas
May 154 min read
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Medievalismo e Nacionalismo
Happy to share that the fabulous Luiz Guerra has translated my essay, "The Great Complicity: Medievalism and Nationalism," for ...

Medievalitas
May 11 min read
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The history of Chaucer studies: How scholars' legacy is created and undone
Recently published with the great folks at medievalists.net : In the shadow of Bismarck’s empire, one dedicated teacher quietly built a...

Medievalitas
Mar 291 min read
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Review: Visualizing Camelot
A quick perspective on Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack's catalog, Visualizing Camelot , which accompanies and extends the University...

Medievalitas
Dec 5, 20241 min read
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Triple Crown Publications
In the world of academe, serendipity makes for several publications coming in during a short period of time, while the rest of an...

Medievalitas
Nov 10, 20242 min read
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Global Robins, Global Greenwoods
Thanks to the patience and encouragement of the editors, Ika Willis and Ellie Crookes, my essay ("Global Robins, Global Greenwoods") for...

Medievalitas
Nov 3, 20242 min read
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Our Daily Middle Ages
The colleagues at the University of Bamberg, Germany, together with colleagues from all over the world, are honoring our friend,...

Medievalitas
Nov 1, 20241 min read
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Laughing Kamala: A Medievalist's Perspective
Some weeks ago, I encountered two apparently unrelated cultural moments within the same hour: The first one was a news report that...

Medievalitas
Oct 13, 20241 min read
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The Black Monk in The Name of the Rose
Happy to contribute a short piece in Poiema on an exceptional presence, a black actor in a feature film situated in the Middle Ages, in...

Medievalitas
Sep 25, 20241 min read
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Flannery O'Connor Conference @ Georgia College
Had a relapse into literary and cultural studies by attending the NEH sponsored conference, "Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking...

Medievalitas
Sep 12, 20241 min read
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Medievally Speaking reviews: The Decameron (Netflix)
Please find Kevin J. Harty's, "Oh, Giovanni, where are you, Giovanni?” A Review of Netflix’s Eight-part Adaption of Giovanni Boccaccio’s...

Medievalitas
Sep 4, 20241 min read
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"(Re)Creating Camelot," for Kzoo
Thanks to Michael A. Torregrossa, Joseph M. Sullivan, and Carl Sell for organizing and chairing a great roundtable on "Re-Creating...

Medievalitas
May 17, 20241 min read
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Georgia Tech Medievalist carries Mace at graduation, sine effusione sanguinis
While President Cabrera wielded the light saber on May Fourth, Georgia Tech's medievalist got to carry the mace (a very techy kind of...

Medievalitas
May 5, 20241 min read
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Romanticism, Nationalism, and Medievalism
An article by Rebecca Zani on the heritage and tradition of the historical roots of medievalism in romanticism and nationalism: “Tra gli...

Medievalitas
Feb 15, 20242 min read
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Medievally Speaking reviews: Once Upon a Mattress
We begin our New Year at Medievally Speaking with Kevin J. Harty's take on a recent performance of the medievalist stage musical Once...

Medievalitas
Feb 7, 20241 min read
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REEL Middle Ages, impending
Looks like Kevin J. Harty and Scott Manning have edited into shape their new collection of articles, a reevaluation of some of the...

Medievalitas
Feb 3, 20241 min read
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Grupo de Estudos em História Medieval (GEHM): A Post-Mortem Analysis
A statement that clarifies the difficult professional choices faced by a highly successful student-led organization in medieval studies. ...

Medievalitas
Aug 3, 20231 min read
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Mrs. Davis and the Search for the Holy Grail
Mrs. Davis and the Search for the Holy Grail; or, Спасибо meiner Herr vamános toute de suite fel y gwynt. An eight-part miniseries...

Medievalitas
Jun 5, 20238 min read
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