Brantley L. Bryant

Broschiertes Buch

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog

Medieval Studies and New Media

Beschreibung

Medieval Studies and New Media presents all of the most memorable posts of the medievalist internet phenomenon "Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog," newly revised and updated, along with essays on the genesis of the blog itself, the role of internet blogs in medieval scholarship, and the unique pleasures of studying a time period full of plagues, schisms, and assizes. "Le Vostre GC" and medievalists Bonnie Wheeler, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, and Robert W. Hanning draw new conclusions about the ways medieval studies are perceived, the connection between the past and the present, and the historical roots of popular culture.

Autor

Geoffrey "LeVostreGC" Chaucer blogs at houseoffame.blogspot.com and is working on a forthcoming poem collecting the "tales" of a group of pilgrims on the way to Canterbury. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University. Robert W. Hanning is Professor Emeritusof English at Columbia University. Bonnie Wheeler is Professor of English at Southern Methodist University where she directs the Medieval Studies Program.

Produktdetails

• The New Middle Ages
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-10507-2
• 2010
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780230105072
• ISBN-10: 0230105076
• Artikelnr.: 29932980

Rezensionen

"There is a tendency to assume that anything that happened in history is not funny. Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog performs the vital service of showing that the Middle Ages can be fun, and, as a side effect, reminding us that people were as capable of laughing in the fourteenth century as we are today . . . maybe more so." - Terry Jones, Director of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and author of Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary

"While disappointed to discover that I am not the Chaucer blogger, I nonetheless commend this edifying tome." - David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor, University of Pennsylvania