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.
Read more "Arthuriana and the Queer Medieval"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?
Read more "Nativity scenes"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 […]
Read more "The Queer Medieval"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!
Read more "Hild and Menewood at the Leeds International Medieval Congress"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 […]
Read more "The never-ending mystery of English"
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