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What I say in my paper: it cannot be said that emotional and moral complexity was absent from literature before the psychological novels
What I mean : if you EVER talk shit about my boy Claudas I will personally fight you.
Presenting the main character, Sir Stradivarius from my first original work: The Cracked Symphony of Divintous. Work is here;
https://archiveofourown.org/works/60648052
Rough character lineup/references for the comic I did over the summer, Stained Glass :)
heya! uploading part of a comic project i did earlier this summer here. if you’re interested seeing the rest of this sweet lesbian fairytale, there’s three page updates every friday on tapas and webtoons ;)
Something simple to get me out of artblock
Strolling on the streets of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, elected the most beautiful village in France in 2012
by kost80 on Flickr.The Sintra National Palace is located in the town of Sintra, in Portugal near Lisbon. It is the best preserved mediaeval Royal Palace in Portugal and it is an important tourist...
Burg Katz above St. Goarshausen and the Rhine River, Germany
As much as I adore your (highly) interesting takes on medievalism and how it differs from what we actually know (or hypothesize) about the medieval period, I don't think I've ever asked: are there any books set in either the real middle ages or some fantasy approximation of the period that you WOULD recommend? They don't have to be "perfect" representations, obviously, but it would be nice to learn about any books that side-step the usual potholes. Thank you!
Hi, friend! A of all, thank you; B of all, there are and I would. From the following list it will become apparent that my criteria are idiosyncratic. Really, I think, the most important thing for my own enjoyment -- for any historical fiction, but especially for that set in the place/time I know best -- is that the work and its author are exploring the period as a way of opening up a conversation between past and present, rather than looking down on the past from the vantage point of the contemporary. This sententious prolegomenon concluded:
The Book Smuggler, Omaima Al-Khamis (eleventh-century Islamicate world, about knowledge and wisdom and religious intolerance)
Morality Play, Barry Unsworth (fourteenth-century England, about justice and law and vocation and community)
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco (doesn't need my introduction, hilarious and deeply poignant meta-meditation on the genre of the detective story, also on theological debates and the love of one's neighbor and the nature of fear)
Sword at Sunset, Rosemary Sutcliff (fifth-century post-Roman Britain, has some clichés, also some magic, but is so richly imagined and full of people I love. Also good dogs.)
Cadfael Chronicles, Ellis Peters (twelfth-century England; I was wondering why I love these so much and I think a lot of it comes back to how much Ellis Peters loved the particular place she lived/set the books in, and watching the changing of the seasons there, so that that close observation of time -- very medieval! -- is also central. Inequality isn't made invisible or grotesque here, either, and it's often one or the other in Fictional Medieval Europe.)
Isaac of Girona mysteries, Caroline Roe (C14 Spain, also whodunits, but I cannot resist including this charming series about a blind Jewish doctor and his beloved wife and his daughters and the orphan he adopts and his chess-playing buddy the bishop and and and....! It's great.)
The History of the Siege of Lisbon, José Saramago (C12/C20 Portugal, called "metafiction about the instability of history and the reality assumed by fiction" by Kirkus Reviews and... yeah!)
She Who Became The Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (C15 Ming China, with ghosts, definitely fantasy rather than regular historical fiction, and on the cusp of early modernity, also so so interesting)
The Apothecary's Shop, Roberto Tiraboschi (C12 Venice, deeply weird -- affectionate -- and drawing on Calvino and gialli as well as medieval history; some inaccuracies about women and medicine but I still found it compelling and thought-provoking)
Hello! I hope you have a nice Whitsuntide and celebrated in the memory of our may-bringer Arthur. I wanted to ask, if you had any recommendations (or websites) on Old/Middle English literature for someone, who's already gotten themselves into the German mess of medieval literature? I am mainly looking for your personal 'must-read' texts that you might be able to name from the top of your head. I'm trying to get cross-knowledge because I'm so much in love with it. Q_Q
Recommendations for people interested in getting into medieval literature: https://professorerudite.tumblr.com/post/159132582176/hi-there-what-kind-of-books-would-recommend-to
My recommended reading list for Viking Era/Heroic Poetry (this includes Italian and Old French) https://professorerudite.tumblr.com/post/159591094086/hi-there-saw-your-medieval-book-recs-could-you
Medieval research resources: https://professorerudite.tumblr.com/post/188677352835/medieval-research-resources
Here’s a link to a list of other Old English Poetry manuscripts (with summaries) Some great reads in Middle English would be Gawain and the Green Knight or Malory’s Morte Darthur.
Literary criticism book suggestions here
Free resource for teaching and learning about Chaucer: Open Access Canterbury Tales
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