Robert Rouse
@rousemedieval.bsky.social
Medievalist, medieval romance, medievalisms, left coast professor@UBC, @Oecologies OG, environmental and spatial approaches, game development consulting (AoE4), dad, nostalgic Man Utd fan. Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 (never the 51st State; fuck that noise).
It kinda spoils it a bit for me, as is like to watch it with my daughter, but that ain’t happening. Limits the audience.
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It kinda spoils it a bit for me, as is like to watch it with my daughter, but that ain’t happening. Limits the audience.
Sighs conferences have never been just about the research papers.
November 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Sighs conferences have never been just about the research papers.
Not all Canadian universities. In the past UBC and UoT used to do the MLA interviews, but thats changed in recent decades. Now zoom allows us to long list interview remotely (still problematic, in a different way). Not that many are hiring right now im any case…
November 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Not all Canadian universities. In the past UBC and UoT used to do the MLA interviews, but thats changed in recent decades. Now zoom allows us to long list interview remotely (still problematic, in a different way). Not that many are hiring right now im any case…
Could only have been better if the blue robot punched a spectator…
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Could only have been better if the blue robot punched a spectator…
Ah, Sir Isumbras in a nutshell.
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Ah, Sir Isumbras in a nutshell.
Yup. It’s from a certain playbook 101, and the implications are intended. Rivers of blood redux.
November 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Yup. It’s from a certain playbook 101, and the implications are intended. Rivers of blood redux.
Ha, did they have your permission to record? That’s a current issue of strong debate here at UBC.
October 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Ha, did they have your permission to record? That’s a current issue of strong debate here at UBC.
Nice to see Ad looming in the back there, in an appropriately coloured jumper.
October 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Nice to see Ad looming in the back there, in an appropriately coloured jumper.
And with some wonderful medieval narrative allusions.
September 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
And with some wonderful medieval narrative allusions.
Y was the way early printers - lacking a symbol for þ - set the word in early printed texts in England.
July 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Y was the way early printers - lacking a symbol for þ - set the word in early printed texts in England.
Ah, CBC Vancouver; have done a couple of interviews there over the years, on Radio and The National.
July 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Ah, CBC Vancouver; have done a couple of interviews there over the years, on Radio and The National.
Pfft. You could drink as much water from the fountain (or hose) as you wished.
July 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Pfft. You could drink as much water from the fountain (or hose) as you wished.
Black plague still rating higher than Trump’s tariffs…
June 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Black plague still rating higher than Trump’s tariffs…
Leaving aside religious garments (are they uniforms?), guild livery?
June 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Leaving aside religious garments (are they uniforms?), guild livery?
Shocking news. Simon was very kind to me in my first post at Durham in 03.
June 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Shocking news. Simon was very kind to me in my first post at Durham in 03.
We are certainly not the same…
June 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
We are certainly not the same…
I thought they’d at least practice marching in time…. Ffs.
June 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I thought they’d at least practice marching in time…. Ffs.
Isn’t that one a WW2 reenactment tank?
June 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Isn’t that one a WW2 reenactment tank?