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The So What
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A public-facing, digital publication focusing on the ‘whys’ and ‘so whats’ of medieval studies and pedagogy. Affiliated with Arthuriana.
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Thank you so much!
August 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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6/ last but very certainly not least, Sarah Barringer offers detailed lesson plans and pedagogical guidance for having students investigate and critique the appeal #Beowulf to the Far Right.

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Beowulf and the Far Right (Pedagogical) — Arthuriana
Why do we still read medieval stories? This is the question I ask my students before my lesson on Beowulf and far-right groups. One reason, they decided, was that many medieval lessons and ideas r...
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August 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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5/ check out a creative piece in context! Amanda Brighton Payne shares her poem, “The Window Bog,” and it’s origins in: “A New Poem in Context: A Medieval Bog Woman in Northern Europe.”

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A New Poem in Context: A Medieval Bog Woman in Northern Europe — Arthuriana
It’s not easy being a historian of the early Middle Ages. Historians most commonly use primary sources to reach into the experience of people whose world was far different from our own. But the very l...
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August 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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4/ then read Seeta Chaganti’s “IRRECOVERY,” a powerfully written exploration of scholarly methods, medieval outlawry, and contemporary resistance; a moving call to “leave the agents of certain collective actions undetectable.”

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IRRECOVERY — Arthuriana
Archival and critical projects referred to as ‘recovery’ allow scholars to make heard the voices of those historically inaudible and marginalized. When discourses of representation, centers and margin...
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August 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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3/ next we have Maggie Hawkins’ fascinating essay on “Black Neomedievalisms in Late and Post-Covid Music Videos”! And yes, those do include videos by Lil Nas X and hemlocke springs, thank you for asking!

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Black Neomedievalisms in Late and Post-Covid Music Videos — Arthuriana
The world of man was ending, rapidly, or so it seemed to me as I sat in my lonely New Jersey apartment in late Spring of 2020. Looking out at the skyline of the city I loved, I watched my friends flee...
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August 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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2/ First up, “Queer Medieval Outing with @nicolaz.bsky.social: A Public Humanities Event,” in which María Bullón-Fernández & Sarah Faulkner discuss an amazing #pubhums event on the Queer Medieval sponsored by Humanities Washington
Queer Medieval Outing with Nicola Griffith: A Public Humanities Event — Arthuriana
How do we recover the voices of those throughout history who have not been in positions of power and who, therefore, have been either left out of records or only represented in partial or stigmatizing...
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August 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM