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The Tenth Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop
Sunday, July 27, 2014
The Tenth Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday and Saturday, Feb. 6-7, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. This year’s workshop is organized by Professor…
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The 2014 Marco Graduate Fellows Evening
Friday, June 6, 2014
On April 25th, the Marco Institute hosted its annual Graduate Fellows evening to celebrate the 2013 Haslam Dissertation Fellowship recipient Katie Hodges-Kluck and the 2013 Anne Marie Van…
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The den of Abra[h]am.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
A colleague of mine informed me in late November that the Jewish community of Palermo was observing Hanukkah together for the first time in over 500 years since…
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“Outing” Plan B
Monday, May 6, 2013
You know you’ve thought about it. You don’t want to, but you do. But each day as you tenderly polish the prose and craft the structure of your…
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Puritan astronomy? Increase Mather’s Kometogra...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
In my last blog post for The Cohort, I talked about a peculiar example of historical chronology—a domestic manuscript from the late 17th century written by a teenaged…
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Mediterranean History as a Medieval Panacea, or,...
Monday, November 26, 2012
This is perhaps something that should be prefaced by saying that I aspire to be a medieval Mediterranean historian, so this critique is more from the inside than…
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In Defense of the Edition
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Including my MA and PhD programs, I’ve been an English lit graduate student—an early modernist—for going on five years, and I’ve never met a peer who is working…
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“HEY now hear:” Thomas Meyer’s Beowulf
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Thomas Meyer’s Beowulf, like the eponymous hero (and the monstrous villain too, I suppose), is an unrelenting force of nature. The deceptively casual choice of “HEY now hear” in…
