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Dr Evelyn Koch
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Early modern/19th-cent. English literature, science and literature, landscape in literature, fantasy, horror and weird fiction.
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Here's the link to the exhibition "Echos der Nacht. Schwarzromantische Resonanzen in Kunst, Musik und Film":
www.romantikmuseum-marburg.de/ausstellunge...
Ausstellungen - Haus der Romantik Marburg
www.romantikmuseum-marburg.de
November 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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We'll never know for sure, but the term is used in several Old English herbals and leechbooks. We should bring back poetic names for vegetables.
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Same here.
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Exactly, bleak and beautiful.
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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It's such a great series.
November 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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One of my favourites is the kenning eorþnafola for asparagus - literally "earth-navel".
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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When I reupped this, I hadn't watched the new adaptation yet which features no Renaissance magic at all, alas.
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Reposting this for #Frankenstein.
evelynkoch.bsky.social Dr Evelyn Koch @evelynkoch.bsky.social · Aug 26
This semester I taught Frankenstein which references Paracelsus, actually Pseudo-Paracelsus, and here's how to create a basilisk:
"Then the Basilisk grows and is born out of and from the great impurity/ of women/namely on the menstruum and on the blood of the sperm, 1/x
#earlymodern #16thC
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM