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Monthly Archives: October 2016
What did the Odyssey sound like when sung in ancient Greek?
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/what-homers-odyssey-sounded-like-when-sung-in-the-original-ancient-greek.htmlᐧ
What did “dangerous woman” mean in Middle English?
Medieval Giantess Skeleton Unearthed
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/10/19/skeleton-of-medieval-giantess-unearthed-from-polish-cemetery/#7e9e8f413b8e
Why English is So Weirdly Different from Other Languages
https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-english-so-weirdly-different-from-other-languages
Yale Publishes Mysterious Medieval Manuscript
http://wshu.org/post/yale-publishes-mysterious-medieval-manuscript
Bob Dylan and Literature in Song
A post by Elaine Treharne about the medieval context of today’s Nobel Prize announcement: http://historyoftexttechnologies.blogspot.com/2016/10/a-complete-unknown-bob-dylan-and.html
New Online Open Access Journal: “Interfaces”
An announcement from the New Chaucer Society: New online open access journal Interfaces “promotes connective and interdisciplinary views of the literatures of medieval Europe and explores their place and significance in a world of global literature.” David Wallace has an Afterword in the latest issue, which is on Histories of Medieval European Literatures: New Patterns of Representation and Explanation. Also essays by Elizabeth Tyler, Simon Gaunt, and Karla Mallette, inter alia.
http://riviste.unimi.it/interfaces/
Ghent Altarpiece Restoration Unveiled
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/oct/12/ghent-altarpiece-restoration