And last, by way of #Introduction ... here’s a link to an article I wrote for a blog, which talks about one of the classes I like to teach: Tolkien’s Medieval English Sources. It’s about #Tolkien , The #LordOfTheRings, the #GawainPoet , #Shakespeare , #AMidsummerNightsDream , these weird #medieval creatures called #woodwoses , and more:
https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2018/02/14/wood-woses-tolkiens-wild-men-and-the-green-knight-by-ethan-campbell/

Here’s a link to my book, The #GawainPoet and the 14th-Century English #Anticlerical Tradition, from Medieval Institute Publications. It’s about #medieval #priests behaving badly, and how lots of people, including the author of the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, criticized and made fun of them:
https://www.amazon.com/Gawain-Poet-Fourteenth-Century-Anticlerical-Tradition-Research/dp/1580443079
#Introduction 2/4

Since I didn't include the hashtag the first time around, let me try doing this #Introduction thread again.

Hi! My name is Ethan. I live in #BrooklynNY. I’m an #English professor at The King’s College, where I teach all kinds of #writing and #literature, from #Shakespeare to Russian novels to Southern lit. Most of my published writing is about #medieval literature, namely from 14th-century England (#Chaucer, the #GawainPoet, #Wyclif, etc.). I also like to write #fiction. 1/4

My theory: the day was so holy and somber, the #GawainPoet took it for granted that no one would be feasting, hunting, or playing games then, so he simply left it out of the poem and fast-forwarded to the start of Gawain and Bertilak’s exchange game. But who knows [shrug emoji].

#Childermas #FeastOfTheHolyInnocents #Gawain

It’s December 28th, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, or #Childermas which commemorates King Herod’s murder of children in his attempt to find the Christ child.

For scholars of the #GawainPoet this is the infamous “missing day” from the poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” … Lord Bertilak feasts for three days starting at Christmas, then hunts for three days, then suddenly it’s New Year’s Day. It’s not possible that the poet, who was obsessed with numerology, lost count. So what happened? 1/2

And last, by way of introduction ... here’s a link to an article I wrote a few years ago for a blog, which talks about one of the classes I like to teach: Tolkien’s Medieval English Sources. It’s about The Lord of the Rings, the Gawain-Poet, Shakespeare, these weird medieval creatures called “woodwoses,” and lots of other connections:
https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2018/02/14/wood-woses-tolkiens-wild-men-and-the-green-knight-by-ethan-campbell/
#Tolkien #LordoftheRings #medieval #literature #Gawain #GawainPoet #Shakespeare #woodwoses

And last, by way of introduction ... here’s a link to an article I wrote a few years ago for a blog, which talks about one of the classes I like to teach: Tolkien’s Medieval English Sources. It’s about The Lord of the Rings, the Gawain-Poet, Shakespeare, these weird medieval creatures called “woodwoses,” and lots of other connections:
https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2018/02/14/wood-woses-tolkiens-wild-men-and-the-green-knight-by-ethan-campbell/
#Tolkien #LordoftheRings #medieval #literature #Gawain #GawainPoet #Shakespeare #woodwoses

Here’s a picture and link to my most recent publication, a chapter in Becoming the Pearl-Poet, edited by Jane Beal. It’s about the question of who might have written the Pearl and Gawain poems, and what we might say about him even if we don’t know his name:
https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Pearl-Poet-Perceptions-Connections-Receptions/dp/1793646759/
(Yes, it’s an academic book and very expensive ... see if your library has a copy.)
#medieval #PearlPoet #GawainPoet #Gawain

Here’s a picture and link to my most recent publication, a chapter in Becoming the Pearl-Poet, edited by Jane Beal. It’s about the question of who might have written the Pearl and Gawain poems, and what we might say about him even if we don’t know his name:
https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Pearl-Poet-Perceptions-Connections-Receptions/dp/1793646759/
(Yes, it’s an academic book and very expensive ... see if your library has a copy.)
#medieval #PearlPoet #GawainPoet #Gawain

Here’s a link to my book, The Gawain-Poet and the 14th-Century English Anticlerical Tradition, from Medieval Institute Publications. It’s about how medieval priests behaved very badly, and how a lot of people, including the author of the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, criticized and made fun of them:
https://www.amazon.com/Gawain-Poet-Fourteenth-Century-Anticlerical-Tradition-Research/dp/1580443079
#medieval #Gawain #GawainPoet #anticlericalism

Here’s a link to my book, The Gawain-Poet and the 14th-Century English Anticlerical Tradition, from Medieval Institute Publications. It’s about how medieval priests behaved very badly, and how a lot of people, including the author of the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, criticized and made fun of them:
https://www.amazon.com/Gawain-Poet-Fourteenth-Century-Anticlerical-Tradition-Research/dp/1580443079
#medieval #Gawain #GawainPoet #anticlericalism