Mad as a March Hare
Hares are really hard to draw with simplified lines. For added difficulty I also tried with Early Medieval Pictish carved stone-style curled joints and Lindisfarne Gospels-style inner lines.
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Haring After Picts
The Picts carved many different beasts on their stones in the Early Medieval. Some real, some imaginary, a few somewhere in between. I set out to learn how to use the style to draw animals that they never did…
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I am an accidental medievalist—snared by the Early Medieval through story not scholarship. Now I’m using fiction informed by scholarship to try change public notions of the Early Medieval. Here’s an interesting open-access journal article assessing one aspect of my impact.
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Was Francis of Assisi to blame for all those interminable nativity plays school children and their cruel teachers use to both amuse and horrify their parents? And would there have been nativity plays in 7th-C Britain?
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I’ve been busy with many things—personal, professional, parental—that last few months and forgot to post about an event I did during Pride month here in Seattle. The whole event was huge—the doors were open from a little after 6:00 pm and I was signing books until after 10:00 pm. Before the main event we had […]
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I’ll be doing an event at the Leeds International Medieval Congress on Wednesday 5th July at 7pm, with Elaine Treharne, Megan Cavell, Jennifer Neville, Joshua Davies, and Matt Hussey. Please come!
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One of the big mysteries to me as a novelist (as opposed to professional historian) is the lack of a convincing explanation for the apparent obliteration of Brythonic (the native Celtic language of Britain before the Romans came and muddled everything up) and substitution of Old English, a Germanic language. (My terminology is imprecise; I’m […]
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