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Screen Shot 2016-03-18 at 12.50.53 PM. March 18, 2016. March 18, 2016. Reflections on Gaston Phoebus’s Livre de la chasse. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out.
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MIND 288 | coloradomedievalist
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My students are blowing me away with their final projects this semester. Here are pictures of one student’s recreation of the hall of Rohan in. Another student created a series of seasonal poems, inspired by Tolkien’s Tom Bombadil poetry, and bound them into a book:. Another student was inspired by Tolkien’s. Can’t wait to see what else they come up with! Memes inspired by Tolkien’s. This spring, as my MIND 288: The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien worked their way through. The Children of Túrin,.
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Sudden Noise, White Noise | coloradomedievalist
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Sudden Noise, White Noise. October 13, 2015. As I was leaving campus the other day, I was nearly run over. This is certainly not the first time that I’ve nearly been run over by an animal. As a child, I was walking along the shores of Red Rock Reservoir, a large beaver nearly barreled into me on its way into the water. But I digress. I couldn’t help but think, as I watched the quarreling squirrels, of this clip from Disney’s 1963 film. The Sword in the Stone. Perhaps some of you have seen this story.
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Flooding of Memories | coloradomedievalist
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October 22, 2015. October 22, 2015. Years ago, one of my poetry professors told us to take an opening line from a published poem and to then write our own poem to go with it. I chose the first line of Seamus Heaney’s “Two Lorries” (first published, I believe, in his collection. The Spirit Level: Poems. It’s raining on black coal and warm wet ashes. In which I discovered efts hiding beneath rocks and branches. It seemed as if the rain would never stop, and I forgot, for a time, what dry socks felt like.
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Ravens on My Mind | coloradomedievalist
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Ravens on My Mind. June 6, 2016. June 6, 2016. It’s a gorgeous summer day in Colorado, so I’ve been trying to spend more time outside rather than work in my office. Today is no exception, and I’ve brought one of my cats outside to enjoy the fresh air with me. This is Genghis Khat. He’s huge, but he’s a big sweetie. He’s been begging me all summer to let him come out while I work, so I finally broke down and got him a harness. Meanwhile, my other cats are glaring at me from inside the house. It would have...
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Vikings and Bears | coloradomedievalist
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May 1, 2016. May 1, 2016. Beware–this post contains a few spoilers for Season 4 of. I’ve been thinking a lot about bears recently. Part of this is due to the theatrical release of the live-action. 8220; Look for the bare necessities”) as well as an ongoing project on Neil Gaiman’s. Odd and the Frost Giants. 2008) in which Thor is transformed into a bear. I’ve heard that there’s a bear in the 2015 film. But most recently, an episode of the History Channel’s. Bjorn (Alexander Ludwig) will face off against ...
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To the Pain | coloradomedievalist
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January 6, 2016. January 6, 2016. Now that surgery has removed the pain, I’m curious about the experience of pain in the Middle Ages–a time long before drugs such as percocet and procedures such as spinal fusion could bring relief. How did they deal with perpetual and severe pain? Extant manuscripts such as MS. Ashmole 1462 (check out the gorgeous scans of 12th-century herbal remedies at http:/ www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/ashmole/1462.htm. Gave Gawain a wounde wide;. This is a wound...
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Foggy Mornings | coloradomedievalist
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July 22, 2015. July 22, 2015. My trail name, by the way, was “Copperhead.” Not for the reddish tint of my hair, but rather for the copperhead snake that I nearly stepped on while doing a warm-up hike through a rhododendron forest. Rhododendrons are lovely, but their fallen leaves provide the perfect camouflage for copperhead snakes. My heart still races any time I’m in a rhododendron forest–most recently in northern England, which has no poisonous snakes! An eft, also known as a teenage newt. 8221; We cl...
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Changing of the Seasons | coloradomedievalist
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Changing of the Seasons. October 4, 2015. Autumn is quickly approaching, and I can’t wait. Autumn means jeans and sweatshirts. Raking leaves, carving pumpkins, and baking. Lots and lots of baking. There are some downsides–the constant viewing of football in our house, for example–but still, a minor price to pay given that the extremes of winter and summer are not for me. In Rocky Mountain National Park is fun! For example, details the harsh British winter, imagining a landscape fettered by ice: “hr...
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Meditations on Massacres and Memory | coloradomedievalist
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Meditations on Massacres and Memory. January 11, 2016. January 11, 2016. I started this post several weeks ago while grading annotated bibliographies. The Paris shootings of November 2015. And I couldn’t help but think: we’ve been here before. My Honors students at that time were reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s. 2015), and I found myself overwhelmed with the connections between this text and the events of recent memory. Interestingly, the Kindle edition features a tree rather than a chalice on its cover:. Was f...
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