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Preaching Apocrypha: Revisions
[This post is part 2 in a series of reflections about my book, Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England (pre-order here); read part 1 here.] After I finished my PhD, settled into my first job, and...
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Preaching Apocrypha: Postscript
[This post is part 3 in a series of reflections about my book, Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England (order here); read part 1 here and part 2 here.] As discussed in my previous posts about...
View ArticleCFP: Putting Women in the Pulpit: A Roundtable about Women and Preaching
CFP: Putting Women in the Pulpit: A Roundtable about Women and Preaching Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Anglo-Saxon Homiletics at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western...
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Auerbach: Against Nationalism
This week in my graduate seminar (for new MA students), as an introduction to literary criticism and theory, we’re reading Erich Auerbach‘s “Odysseus’ Scar,” the first chapter of his book Mimesis: The...
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Prefaces to the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and Nativity of Mary
It’s International Translation Day! Not coincidentally, September 30 is also the feast day of Saint Jerome (347-420), who translated the Bible into Latin (known as the Vulgate), as it was known for...
View ArticleForthcoming: “A History of the Study of Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England”
I’m pleased to say that I have an article forthcoming in the December issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion, titled “A History of the Study of Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England.” I was invited...
View ArticleForthcoming: “Modelling Medieval Hands: Practical OCR for Caroline Minuscule”
A few years ago, I wrote a post about some preliminary experiments I ran using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology on medieval manuscripts. Fortunately, after I wrote that up, I had quite a...
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Dragons in the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew
It’s no secret that many people who love the Middle Ages also love dragons. We find dragons in literature like the Old English poem Beowulf, Norse sagas, saints’ lives, romances, Arthurian legends,...
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Translating the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew
My book The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Nativity of Mary is now available from Cascade Books! I’ve written about these texts and my work on them before, and I’d like to take the opportunity of...
View ArticleCFP: Homiletics 2020: The Futures of the Study of Preaching
CFP Homiletics 2020: The Futures of the Study of PreachingSponsored by the Society for the Study of Anglo-Saxon Homiletics at the 55th International Congress on Medieval StudiesWestern Michigan...
View ArticleMedieval World Literature Senior Seminar
Over the past month or so I’ve tweeted about my senior seminar for English majors, and several people were interested in the course, so I’m posting a version of the reading schedule here. In many...
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Preaching Apocrypha in Early England: Historiographic Currents
I’ve been thinking for a while about posting my talk from Kalamazoo 2019, and I’ve finally gotten around to doing that. I was invited to present about my work on apocrypha for a session titled “Old...
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Medievalism in The Rise of Skywalker
With the release of Star Wars, Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, the nine-part narrative that George Lucas began in 1977 has come to an end. That does not mean an end to Star Wars stories, but it...
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A Response to Shannon Chamberlain on Fan Fiction
Just yesterday, The Atlantic published an article by Shannon Chamberlain about fan fiction and sexuality. The article is a smart piece, linking fan fiction practices in the eighteenth century with...
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Brooklyn Roads: A Manuscript Provenance Story
Brooklyn Museum, Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn NY But as my mind walks through those placesI’m wonderin’What’s come of them….Neil Diamond, “Brooklyn Roads” This is a story about trying to hunt down a...
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Auerbach: Against Nationalism
This week in my graduate seminar (for new MA students), as an introduction to literary criticism and theory, we’re reading Erich Auerbach‘s “Odysseus’ Scar,” the first chapter of his book Mimesis: The...
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Comparing Biblical Canons
I’m very pleased to announce that I’ve been asked to write a new book that presents an introduction to biblical apocrypha for general audiences. Over the next few months, I’ll be writing the book and...
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What Are Biblical Apocrypha?
[This is the second in a series of posts as I write and gear up for the publication of a new introduction to biblical apocrypha for general audiences. See the first post here.] One of the most basic...
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Brooklyn Roads: A Manuscript Provenance Story
Brooklyn Museum, Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn NY But as my mind walks through those placesI’m wonderin’What’s come of them….Neil Diamond, “Brooklyn Roads” This is a story about trying to hunt down a...
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Ethiopian Biblical Canons and Apocrypha
[This is the second in a series of posts as I write and gear up for the publication of a new introduction to biblical apocrypha for general audiences. See the first and second posts for related...
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