“With his long, red beard, and his sister’s weird…”
If April is the month when longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, then maybe August is the month that priketh bloggers new in hir corages. Here are some neat blogs by medievalists: two new ones, and a third I’ve only now discovered.
At Per Omnia Saecula, grad student Jennifer Lynn Jordan plans to blog about Prester John, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Dante—and not just Rossetti, either, but also the Big D himself. Her interest in medieval bestiaries has already turned up one amusing discovery: the bonnacon, a creature whose primary defensive tactic, while repulsive, is not uncommon among humans here in latter-day D.C.
Michael Livingston, who teaches medieval lit at The Citadel, also has a new blog, where he answers the nagging question, “what would the sci-fi novel Old Man’s War sound like if Chaucer had written it?” If that question hasn’t nagged at you, then you may wish to keep your opinion to yourself; unlike most people who study and write about the Middle Ages, Livingston gerte him with a gode brond.
Not new—but new to me—is Jonathan Jarrett’s blog, A Corner of Tenth Century Europe, a site that combines Cambridge, coinage, and Carolingian Catalonia. It’s definitely the sort of blog that will teach you something—if you’re willing to C’s the day.
Monday, August 20, 2007, at 8:18 am
I suppose it is a Cambridge experience in some ways but it does alarm me slightly to be so branded… I’ve been trying to escape for some years. That probably just makes the branding the more obvious though! Thankyou for the notice!
Monday, August 20, 2007, at 10:29 am
Thanks for the mention! The medievalist blogging community has been really warm and friendly so far, and I’m very happy to be here.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007, at 1:51 am
No worries, Jonathan! We’re friends of Cambridge around here.
Jennifer, welcome. The medievalist subsphere of the blogging world is indeed a neat place, and I think grad students are wise to take advantage of what it has to offer.