InHow Words WorkbySarah FitzGerald·Nov 5When the Boundary Between Two Words ShiftsInvestigating juncture loss in Middle English
Knowledge Explorer·Aug 6How to Understand Chaucer’s Humor in The Canterbury TalesThe jokes have not aged as much as the missing context has.
Calico·Nov 28, 2025Out to seaOut to sea last night, mine watchful eye caught wind of a glow that shone golden agaynst the night. The dayes fog had growen thick over…
Robert H Edwards PhD·Feb 27, 2025Voynich Reconsidered: the Ashmole 61 manuscriptAs I mentioned in a previous article on this platform, in my investigations for Voynich Reconsidered (Schiffer Publishing, 2024) I examined…
Michael·Dec 14, 2024Cotton Caligula A.II: Its Intended Audience and CompilerI left academia a long time ago, but before that I was working on Cotton Caligula A.II, a mid-fifteenth century manuscript that I would…
InAdam’s NotebookbyAdam Roberts·Oct 19, 2023Hesiod in Early Middle EnglishFollowing on from yesterday [‘Homer in Old English’] and by the same logic — that is, translating selections from different stages of…
InCounter ArtsbyJohn Welford·Apr 18, 2023The Reduced Canterbury Tales: Part 1‘The Tales’ told in exactly 100 words apieceA response icon2A response icon2
Medieval Indonesia·Oct 13, 2021Nutmeg and the Holy Grail — AddendumThis post is just a little add-on to the previous one on nutmeg and the Holy Grail. You may remember from that post that we looked at two…
Deborah Baudoin (she/her)·Dec 7, 2020He Groweτ to be a Frogge, if He Be Nat Eton.In my desire to find something to write about today, I read an article about writer’s block and depression by Mary Robinette Kowal. In it…
Ben Hardyment·Jun 22, 2018Cod Middle English VerseA few years ago, I was asked to be Best Man at my brother’s wedding in the Cotswolds. It’s not actually relevant that it was in the…
