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Between Women: friendship, desire and marriage in Victorian England – Sharon Marcus, Princeton University Press 2007. Someone recommended this to me a couple of months back, before I made my exc… more →
The Naked Philologist
Things Highly has been reading lately
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highlyeccentric wrote 1 month ago: Between Women: friendship, desire and marriage in Victorian England – Sharon Marcus, Princeton … more →
Look! A Distraction!
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highlyeccentric wrote 1 year ago: While I’m engaged in a probably-doomed effort to finish my thesis in the next twelve hours, yo … more →
Three Things:
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highlyeccentric wrote 1 year ago: 1. You have no idea how much I hate the Sermo Lupi ad Anglos right now (unless of course you read my … more →
'Marvels' in the Song of Roland
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highlyeccentric wrote 1 year ago: Hello again intarwubs… it’s coming down to thesisy crunch time, and I really haven … more →
Chastity Belts! Prof. Classen's Sydney lecture available online
highlyeccentric wrote 1 year ago: Just a quick heads-up: Albrecht Classen’s lecture ‘The Myth of the Medieval Chastity Bel … more →
Chastity Belts: An "Academically Approved" Forum for Talking About Sex
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highlyeccentric wrote 1 year ago: So says Proffessor Albrecht Classen of the University of Arizona, author of “The Medieval Chas … more →
Stop presses!
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highlyeccentric wrote 1 year ago: A Momentous First has just occurred. Highlyeccentric just drafted a paragraph- the very first paragr … more →
Banging Shield and Shield Together: Lesbians in Medieval French Literature
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highlyeccentric wrote 1 year ago: That got your attention, didn’t it? Instead of writing up my Gawain paper, and instead of doin … more →
More Fourteenth-Century Hijinks
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highlyeccentric wrote 1 year ago: Along with uprisings and social anxiety, guess what else was going on in the fourteenth century? An … more →
Fun in the Fourteenth Century
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highlyeccentric wrote 1 year ago: Executed Today (a most entertaining and grizzly blog) has a fascinating post on the execution of Gui … more →
Roland and Gawain- further expoundings
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highlyeccentric wrote 1 year ago: I foolishly drank red wine at Formal Dinner, and got all teary over a UNICEF presentation, and now I … more →
Gawain and Roland: Matching Pair
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highlyeccentric wrote 1 year ago: Let me test this theory out on you, O Blogosphere. France’s great hero-king, Charlemagne, had … more →
Avicenna on female masturbation
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highlyeccentric wrote 1 year ago: I present to you: the backstory from this Times article on the history of the vibrator. Hippocrates, … more →
Proctology: a truly medieval pastime
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highlyeccentric wrote 1 year ago: Read about John Ardenne and his (illustrated) treatments for anal fistula, over at Scribal Terror. C … more →
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highlyeccentric wrote 1 year ago: Go and contemplate medieval Russia and its claim to be the third Rome. (You have to scroll through- … more →
Why Fourteenth Century Knights Had Good Reason To Be A Little Angsty
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highlyeccentric wrote 1 year ago: I just finished a long and complicated article on what J.P. would call ‘Boy History’. No … more →
