Making Manuscripts from the Getty Museum.
Well worth watching...
Well worth watching...
I'm surprised by how many times the medieval world has crept into my books (perhaps most obviously in The Foliate Head, Val / Orson, and The Book of the Red King, but elsewhere as well) and into many of my blog posts. Perhaps I really am living in the wrong century, though I would not have lived long in the medieval world and am grateful to modern medicine's influence in matters of bad bacteria and childbirth.
My own possibly-quirky explanation of why green men invaded European churches here.
Druidic verse from Amargin, and a link to Yeats here.
"The Annunciation Carved in a Medieval Prayer-nut" here (and in the print edition.) And no, you're not missing anything; it ends with "stumbles--"
And here's one where þa middangeard crept in. "Vermont Kingdom."
And a bit of The Book of the Red King here or here. Some of these will be a little altered when the book appears.
A favorite medieval-mad website: Jeff Sypeck, Quid plura? Here are his medieval-inflected posts.
And here is Jeff's Beallsville Calendar, now in progress, inspired by medieval calendar poems.
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The medieval world is still with us. I just went to the door for mail and found a box of wine and New Selected Poems by Les Murray. Looking up an interview, I see him talking about influences: "Various Scottish and Irish medieval poets too, Dunbar and the poet of that mighty anonymous hymn from Ireland, "Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart," hymn 31 in John de Luca's Australian Parish Hymn Book" (Image Journal.) And here's this, a comment I might have made, from another interview: "the deadliest inertia is to conform to your times" (The Paris Review.)
