"A double-fault final-play elimination hasn't occurred since the Helsinki incident of 1919 ... and I think we all remember how THAT turned out!"
Ethan Campbell
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English professor, medievalist, writer
Here’s a picture and link to my most recent publication, a chapter in Becoming the #PearlPoet , edited by Jane Beal. It’s about the question of who might have written the #Pearl and #Gawain poems, and what we might say about him/her with the limited information we have:
https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Pearl-Poet-Perceptions-Connections-Receptions/dp/1793646759/
(Yes, it’s an expensive academic book: see if your library has a copy.)
#Introduction 3/4
https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Pearl-Poet-Perceptions-Connections-Receptions/dp/1793646759/
(Yes, it’s an expensive academic book: see if your library has a copy.)
#Introduction 3/4
Here’s a link to my book, The #GawainPoet and the 14th-Century English #Anticlerical Tradition, from Medieval Institute Publications. It’s about #medieval #priests behaving badly, and how lots of people, including the author of the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, criticized and made fun of them:
https://www.amazon.com/Gawain-Poet-Fourteenth-Century-Anticlerical-Tradition-Research/dp/1580443079
#Introduction 2/4
https://www.amazon.com/Gawain-Poet-Fourteenth-Century-Anticlerical-Tradition-Research/dp/1580443079
#Introduction 2/4
On New Year’s Eve, the last day of Sir Gawain’s stay at Bertilak’s castle, Lord Bertilak hunts an elusive fox named Reynard — a reference to a trickster character from a popular series of medieval beast tales.
I assume Reynard is also the inspiration for the talking fox in the Green Knight movie, which isn’t named and which Bertilak captures and releases, so it can warn Gawain to run from his fate.
#NewYearsEve #Gawain #GreenKnight #Reynard
I assume Reynard is also the inspiration for the talking fox in the Green Knight movie, which isn’t named and which Bertilak captures and releases, so it can warn Gawain to run from his fate.
#NewYearsEve #Gawain #GreenKnight #Reynard
Have you ever wondered how fast a one-horse open sleigh can go?
Well, the fourth verse of "Jingle Bells," from 1857, says that to "take the lead" in a sleigh race, you need to "get a bob-tailed bay / Two-forty as his speed."
In other words, a horse that can run a mile in 2 minutes, 40 seconds. If you do the math, that's about ... 22 miles per hour. Swift.
Christmas carol double trivia:
"Jingle Bells" was the first Christmas song ever recorded -- in 1889 on an Edison wax cylinder, which is sadly now lost.
It was also the first song of any kind ever broadcast from space -- from Gemini 6 in 1965.