[ ... ] is in English literature, so one of the interesting things for me was hearing about literary attitudes to digital methods. He contrasted ... more
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The intimacy of poetry, or, On First Attending a Poetry Event
@ 2011-02-12 – 10:27:24
Last Wednesday evening I was in the audience at two events in London. The first one was an IHR seminar where Jane Kershaw was talking on Viking brooches … more -
Backwards thinking
@ 2011-01-06 – 21:43:00
In the last couple of weeks I have been trying to disentangle Hincmar of Rheims' arguments in his text on Lothar II's divorce, contemplating morality, … more -
What can historical fiction do that history can’t?
@ 2009-11-14 – 22:03:52
Bavardess has just revealed herself as another historian who either wants to or is actually attempting to write historical fiction rather than ‘straight’ … more -
Why I no longer read historical fiction
@ 2009-08-10 – 18:50:35
I read a lot of historical novels both as a child and as a young adult. I still have my copies of books by Rosemary Sutcliff, Geoffrey Trease, Ronald … more -
Princesses and agency
@ 2009-07-04 – 09:18:46
[ ... ] read children's literature from 50 years ago or more, you realise that most of the parents involved would be getting prosecuted by the NSPCC for ... more -
Middlemarch and male reputation
@ 2009-04-14 – 20:58:42
I’ve been re-reading George Eliot’s Middlemarch and realising how much of the plot I’d forgotten in the several years since I last read it. But reading … more -
Gutting literature for historical pleasure and profit
@ 2008-03-28 – 12:28:05
[ ... ] ‘But is gutting literature for use as a context-less data-bank ever really sound history?’ I’ll start by saying that I didn’t hear Stephen’s ... more -
Why historians should read literary scholars
@ 2007-12-16 – 23:33:24
[ ... ] classical, secular literature got a taste for secular pleasures and their literary celebration, but not for the moral uplift they were supposed to ... more -
Should historians read literary scholars?
@ 2007-11-28 – 08:26:22
[ ... ] don't affect literature in some way). But often scholars will combine aspects from several theories together, making it hard to split off the ... more
