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Medieval Religion and Political Engagement, Part 2: Biblical Precedents
[This post is part of an ongoing series, inspired by the upcoming presidential election in the United States, seeking to answer the question: What does the medieval period have to tell us about...
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Medieval Religion and Political Engagement, Part 3: Monasticism
[This post is part of an ongoing series, inspired by the upcoming presidential election in the United States, seeking to answer the question: What does the medieval period have to tell us about...
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A Tale of Two Women: Anna & Mary in Advent
During the season leading up to Christmas known as Advent, the Christian story of Jesus’ birth is often a centerpiece of Western culture. Yet many Christians also celebrate another miraculous story...
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Was Baby Jesus “Kind of a Dick”?
Just before Christmas, Mark Hay published a piece over at Vice titled “Baby Jesus Was Kind of a Dick” about certain accounts of Jesus’ miracles as a child. Specifically, Hay discusses apocryphal...
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Ælfric’s Sermon On Judith
Prague, Musée nat., Bibl., XVIII. B. 18, fol. 200r. When I first started working on texts related to the biblical Judith in Anglo-Saxon England (which I discuss here), I had several goals: one of...
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My Debt to Public Education
The latest news cycle brings a media storm about Tuesday’s (January 17) confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos: news stories, live-streaming...
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Medieval Multimedia Syllabus
This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar (the first since I’ve started at RIC). Over the course of the semester, I’ll be posting some reflections on the course and the material we’re covering,...
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Refugee Jesus in the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew
Recently, Casey Strine (Lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern History and Literature at the University of Sheffield) wrote for the Huffington Post UK about “Ancient Christianity’s Opposition To Trump’s...
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E-Clavis Entries
I’m happy to share two entries I’ve contributed to the e-Clavis for The North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature (NASSCAL): Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew Life of Judas As I’ve...
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Forthcoming: “Omnis piger propheta est”
I was recently asked to contribute a piece for a forthcoming Festschrift in honor of Michael E. Stone, a scholar whose work on early Jewish and Christian pseudepigrpaha and apocrypha has affected many...
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Two Thieves and a Funeral
Recently, I’ve been reading Mary Dzon’s new book, The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages (Philadelphia, PA: U of Pennsylvania P, 2017), and it’s turned out to be quite appropriate for...
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Teaching Writing for the Public
Last summer, I participated in a week-long Summer Seminar on the Teaching of Writing (SSTW) hosted through our campus Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning. The Seminar has continued in some ways,...
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Translation as Public Writing
I’ve been thinking about translation more and more over the past several years. Partly, this is because I find myself needing to translate more obscure texts for my own research. But one of my goals...
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Public Writing Round-Up
This post is a sort of follow-up to a few others in which I’ve written about my own work turning toward public writing. Fortunately, other academics have laid the groundwork in this field. This type of...
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Will the Real King Arthur Please Rise?
This week we’ll witness the release of yet another movie about perhaps the most famous ruler from the medieval period, King Arthur. The film, directed by Guy Ritchie, is titled King Arthur: Legend of...
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How I #KeepJoyInScholarship on the Tenure Track
When my friends Micah Goodrich, Bre Leake, and I came up with the #KeepJoyInScholarship hashtag on Twitter, I was fairly new to my job. I was in my first semester of my first year at Rhode Island...
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King Elizabeth and Identity Politics
Showing this month at the The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, is the play King Elizabeth. Written and directed by the Gamm’s Artistic Director, Tony Estrella, King Elizabeth...
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Bede, Star Wars, and Ascension Day
This morning I was pleasantly elated to discover a fact of the calendar and a trio of celebrations coming together. Today, on May 25, 2017 we get to commemorate three major events simultaneously:...
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All Scholarship Is Autobiographical
Almost two years ago I wrote a post about the intertwining of literature and culture. I started composing this post at the same time, but I never published it. I’ve gone back to it over the past few...
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Getting Medieval in Virtual Reality
Last week I had my first fully immersive experience with virtual reality. I saw the future, and it is good. My first immersive virtual reality experience.My experience came about because of the...
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