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…And At Least Two Words You Probably Should Know Were NOT Invented By...

There’s a Huffington Post piece making the rounds today titled 13 Words You Probably Didn’t Know Were Invented By Shakespeare. While well meaning, the post is in desperate need of pedantic correction...

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The Voice(s) of John Gower: Prose into Sound

One of the completely unanticipated thrills during the publication process for A Burnable Book has come from the world of audiobooks. In all the excitement of production I hadn’t realized that both...

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Publication Week #1!

We’re just three days out from the UK publication date of A Burnable Book, which will appear on January 30 from HarperCollins, and on February 18 from HarperCollins/William Morrow here in the U.S. (If...

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Uterine Vellum: A Florilegium

I’ve received lots of questions about “the parchment book” in recent weeks so I’m reposting this from about a year ago. The book will be published by the University of Chicago Press in late 2015. Read...

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A Theft of Love: How Geoffrey Chaucer Stole Valentine’s Day from John Gower

It’s a “fact” well known to students of medieval English literature that Geoffrey Chaucer was the inventor of Valentine’s Day, an attribution made on the basis of a famous line from the Parliament of...

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Chaucer and the Do-Rag

On the eve of publication day, looking for some distraction, I’ve been scanning through the earliest visual depictions of Geoffrey Chaucer, trying to refine a physical description of the poet. We have...

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Chaucer’s Book Launch…and Gower’s Shame

The Troilus Frontispiece, from Cambridge, CCC MS 61 So today is Launch Day, with a party in downtown Charlottesville to celebrate the publication of A Burnable Book. Given the occasion and the setting...

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#twittertakeover for @harpercollins

On Friday, while still recovering from the book tour, I’ll be doing a Twitter takeover (hashtag #twittertakeover) for HarperCollins (@harpercollins), tweeting various and sundry Thinges Medievale...

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Heorot in Vermont: Homage to Booktopia

On the weekend of April 11-13 I traveled to Manchester, Vermont for Booktopia 2014, a three-day celebration of books, reading, and all-around bibliophilia that I can’t recommend highly enough—-it was...

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Crime Fictions: Premodern/Modern

This fall at UVa I’ll be teaching a senior seminar called “Crime Fictions: Premodern/Modern.” The class will explore the literature of crime in medieval and early modern England, from Chaucer’s...

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