tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62213572024-02-07T04:27:23.959-12:00The RuminateLike a clean cow chewing cud...so Bede describes the poet Caedmon. This blog is a place to report news, calls for papers, news items, and other things of interest to the Late Antique, Patristic, Early Medieval, and Book Arts folk and to just chat about things medieval.
Also see other blogs at <a href="http://theheroicage.blogspot.com/">The Heroic Age</a> and <a href="http://modernmedieval.blogspot.com/">Modern Medieval</a>.theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.comBlogger277125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-17309380591232435182019-07-31T09:28:00.001-12:002019-07-31T09:28:14.573-12:00
Call for
Papers: New Approaches to Post-Roman Europe
The
Heroic Age turns 20!
In the age of the Internet, that is practically ancient! For our twentieth
anniversary issue, HA is returning to its roots, more or less. That
first issue focused on the Age of Arthur. For Issue 20, we invite submissions
that examine post-Roman Northwestern Europe. We intend to put out an issue that
is cross- and theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-45021894053650997432018-08-15T16:56:00.003-12:002018-08-15T16:56:34.527-12:00Call for Papers
New Approaches to the Age of Arthur: Britain and Gaul in the Fifth Century
Sponsor: The Heroic Age
Contact: Dr. Larry Swain, larry.swain@bemidjistate.edu
The "dark" fifth century has continued to be a source of debate among scholars. During this century, Roman Gaul became Frankia, the Roman provinces of Britain transformed into small kingdoms, some of them Germanic in nature, otherstheswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-56761487284408402972017-07-06T10:56:00.002-12:002017-07-06T10:56:38.853-12:00The Congress PaperWhat’s in a name? Everything in this case. The question I want to explore
today a little bit is the use in Old English and in Old Saxon of the name
“Heliand” for Jesus Christ and suggest that it is not as straightforward a
choice as one is accustomed to consider it. The term is sometimes used as a
name for Jesus, sometimes as Jesus’ title; but most modern commentators are
accustomed to theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-76719330361683137172017-04-23T11:46:00.001-12:002017-04-23T11:46:23.584-12:00Heroic Age Issue 17
On behalf of the Heroic Age board and my co-editor, I would
like to announce the first parts of Issue 17!!
That will be further explained below. We are very happy to release these
well-deserving materials out to our readers.
The forgoing also means the completion of Issue 16 of the
journal. Truth be told, this issue has been done for some time, and I am just
getting around to theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-12558255595171457532016-09-21T02:26:00.001-12:002016-09-21T02:26:22.085-12:00Looking for Papers
Merovingians and Their Neighbors
Sponsor: The Heroic Age
Session Organizer: Deanna Forsman
Contact: Deanna Forsman North Hennepin Community College 7411 85th Ave. North Brooklyn Park, MN 55445 Phone: 763-488-0405 dforsman@nhcc.edu
Recent scholarship has suggested that the political landscape of early medieval northwestern Europe owed a greater debt to the Huns, as opposed to the theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-60514761568513641552016-09-16T02:41:00.000-12:002016-09-16T02:41:15.172-12:00A Small Bit of Self PromotionA long, long overdue post in so many ways. Three things:
1) I have an article that has now appeared in the summer issue of Anglia! I'm rather pleased by this, though I still prefer my original to what was published, but still I'm very happy about this and very proud of this article. http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/angl.2016.134.issue-2/ang-2016-0026/ang-2016-0026.xml?theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-81620826004723999572016-05-24T12:44:00.000-12:002016-05-24T12:44:05.100-12:00Wooty Woo!!Hey, now you can guess why I chose the ol' ruminate as the title of my blog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVjE_fS-plg
theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-70059007326793325042016-05-16T03:16:00.000-12:002016-05-16T03:22:20.531-12:00Kzoo 2016"Well, I'm back." Truly some of the saddest and most profound words to end a novel. For this post, "Well, it's over." will do just as well. And it is over. Kalamazoo 2016, the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies is over and in the books.
Thank you denizens of the Medieval Institute and Western Michigan University for once again putting this shebang on!! The currents of theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-88178257279674512452016-05-08T09:42:00.001-12:002016-05-08T18:45:33.161-12:00Swain's 12 Rules for Good Reviewing Some time ago on Facebook, I promised or at least intimated that I want to do a quick little guide to how to be a good reader for a journal. This is in part based on my own experience on both sides of the academic publishing business. As an author myself, I have been the victim of some scathing reviews of my work. That is not to say that my work is above criticism. Nor is it to say theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-53665997379428577552016-03-17T07:31:00.001-12:002016-03-17T07:32:10.561-12:00LoricaAn attempt at a Lorica prayer in honor of St. Paddy...and a nod to St Gerty.
I bind to myself today the wholeness of being
I bind to myself today the giggles of small children
I bind to myself today the hug of one loved
I bind to myself today the bonds of friendship
I bind to myself today the whisper of wind in the trees
I bind to myself today the gurgle of the mountain brook
I bind theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-57367901809914020952016-02-16T06:37:00.002-12:002016-02-16T06:37:43.414-12:00Tenure TalesIf anyone is interested in my tenure narrative....a month in the making, 45 pages long and counting...it may be viewed here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1awA7oyPjQNU1pDTk1rZWNyZDA/view?usp=sharingtheswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-78591146292642298202015-12-14T07:05:00.001-12:002015-12-14T07:05:23.170-12:00Dear Colleagues,
Most of you need no introduction to the splendid work of the Dictionary of Old English and its importance to the work of Anglo-Saxonists worldwide. I am writing on behalf of the Dictionary to enlist your aid.
At the end of 2013, the DOE was awarded a five-year, $500,000 Challenge Grant from the Triangle Family Foundation of Raleigh, North Carolina. To release each annual theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-81055490668842010802015-06-06T20:35:00.001-12:002015-06-06T20:35:17.028-12:00Tolkien ClassSo this is the summer class on Tolkien I'm teaching. I hope. Ulp.
&theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-37918239184855503172015-03-13T20:17:00.000-12:002015-03-13T20:18:36.433-12:00
ENGL
4183 Intensive Latin Online 2015
Dr.
Larry Swain
Bemidji
State University
http://www.bemidjistate.edu/academics/summer/
Course Description: This
course is an intensive introduction to Latin, covering in nine weeks a full
academic year’s worth of the language. This will require a lot of work and
dedication on the part of both instructor and student. By the end, theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-28539495096550608692014-06-08T16:29:00.001-12:002014-06-08T16:29:24.491-12:00Bede's Multiple Textual CommunitiesThe following is the paper I read at this year's International Congress on Medieval Studies. It is in many ways, the confluence of several projects I have been working on over the last several years, some of which I have shared here. I am often critical of taking a "cookie cutter" of theory and applying that to a text. I am critical of myself here for doing just that. On theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-76703061995613005522014-05-26T11:45:00.000-12:002014-05-26T11:46:55.435-12:00Did Rome Fall: The Dark Ages ReduxThe Renaissance Myth depends in its more modern incarnations upon one notion: The Roman Empire in the West fell. And it fell hard. But did it? In most of these conversations and debates I've had, this is of course the marker: the Roman Empire fell, cities were depopulated, roads ruines, libraries and schools closed, roads destroyed, cross-empire trade came to a halt, economic theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-25577837164152807572014-05-19T08:57:00.000-12:002014-05-19T08:57:03.472-12:00What the Summer is Shaping Up ForSo, the official school year is done, and now I move into summer mode. Summers for me are not "lazing about" but are very full: I expect a lot of academic service since I am chair and have 25 duty days. And of course I am teaching summer courses, including a summer online Latin course, previous versions I have advertised here. But I still have high hopes of accomplishing theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-7810461862301490322014-03-02T14:26:00.001-12:002014-03-02T14:26:16.960-12:00So much Drama! The Dark Ages Again
In another discussion about the "dark ages" and why the Renaissance is better and is in fact a "rebirth" of classical art and literature, one of the contributors compared the Germanic successor states of the early medieval period with the "classical period" in terms of drama as an example. In the classical world we have greats like Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes and so on. Nothing theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-41233748385679789032014-02-22T22:37:00.002-12:002014-03-02T14:26:55.963-12:00There Were No European Dark Ages!A number of years ago on this blog, I promised a series of posts that would deal with the notion of the "dark ages." That term is so wrong, so misused...and yet, I continue to encounter it over and over again even by professionals in the Humanities in adjacent fields. Over the last couple years on forums that have grown up such as ResearchGate, LinkedIn as well as the old fashioned theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-25147833778175145682013-10-21T20:26:00.001-12:002013-10-21T20:26:05.442-12:00Who Read Bede?The following is my paper from this past Congress, warts and all including the unifinished ending. It is an exercise in data mining that is producing some interesting results and will result in something of a study. Without further preamble, here it is:
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theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-51812718012033979742013-10-13T10:56:00.001-12:002013-10-13T10:56:52.558-12:00Something HELishSo. I've thought for years I ought to do something about the History of English Language book choices out there, frustrating as they all are and far too expensive. But I haven't. Then after discussions earlier this year with Mary Kate Hurley and Nicole Discenza and others on this and related HEL matters, I really though I ought to do something about it. Finally, at SEMA last weekend during the theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-10857683838411985172013-06-13T19:58:00.000-12:002013-06-14T08:20:58.745-12:00Carnivalesque: At last, sort of.Well, tardy, overdue, and underdone, but the Carnivalesque is below. More to come!
Hello and welcome to the slightly tardy
Carnivalesque, Pre-Modern Edition. Honestly, I miss the old days
where we had enough posts to fill an ancient and medieval and
renaissance carnivalesques! Ah, the nostalgia.....
So, here we are. Before starting, I'd
like to give a shout out to three blogs that theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-85902321870187645012013-06-08T20:35:00.002-12:002013-06-08T20:35:51.296-12:00Carnivalesque will hopefully be up on the morrow (June 9). Thanks for the nominations and the patience!theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-63111289043559513522013-05-31T08:24:00.002-12:002013-05-31T08:24:26.074-12:00CarnivalesqueHey ho,
The next Carnivalesque covering ancient, medieval, and early modern "history" (and I'm just sayin', I'll take anything in the periods) will be hosted by me right here on The Ruminate. So if in the last 6 weeks or so you've read, or written, a post you like quite a bit, send it on to me to include in the Carnivalesque. Email or include in the comments.theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-56342142939689805802013-05-19T15:29:00.000-12:002013-05-19T15:29:46.516-12:00We Need Better Story TellingAND HOW! This is so accurate an assessment. Please read.theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0