What a wonderful celebration!

Hope to see you there —Maureen is the best and I’m delighted to be helping celebrate her on 30 November @britishlibrary.bsky.social @rsliterature.bsky.social

We have an amazing panel lined up to celebrate Maureen Duffy, including Bernardine Evaristo herself, @valmcdermid.bsky.social, @suchmayer.bsky.social, @lawrencewarner.bsky.social, Elaine Hobby and Bee Rowlatt, and Rebecca Scroggs reading Maureen Duffy's work.

Yeah I saw that and vile calumny

Sparks flew! Thanks so much to @mginotherwords.bsky.social for guiding me on the path. Happy to share this big essay ‘Stephan Batman’s Peculiar Ways & the Parkerian Scribe of Pierce the Plowman’s Crede’. Maria Giovanna pointed out that Batman’s initials are *not* in TCC R.3.14 Piers Plowman

This is my copy of Tyrwhitt’s 2nd edn of the Canterbury Tales (1798) purchased @stgilescg.bsky.social book fair (one on now!) and beautifully rebound by Wyvern Bindery

‘Mi Minde is Mukul’, the 102nd Gawainian Wheel* The illustrator of Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero A.x., Art. 3, writes Jennifer

‘Mi minde is mukul’, the 102nd Gawainian Wheel, out now OA!

PhD opportunity with Ryan Perry & @lawrencewarner.bsky.social! Remaking History: Reproducing the Middle English Prose Brut in the late medieval metropolis. It'll investigate the literary production phenomena in medieval England represented by extant manuscripts and fragments of this chronicle #cfa

Thank you for this! I have somehow selected the most virtuous group of folks on this platform and wanted instead to see something beautiful. Nice 👌

I did for medieval (I think). Will go looking for Swifties now 👍🏼

Every time I’ve logged into Bluesky my feed is 1) someone reposting 10 things followed by 2) every NYT piece of the last hour. I’ve unfollowed NYT but is there a way to get variety here?

Very generous PhD fellowship for ME Brut project under the direction of Ryan Perry (Kent) and me: www.komldsp.org.uk/projects/rem...

In case you’re interested here’s a portion of my photo of the document, a bit closer than we can get at the BL

I’m sorry —I just like talking about this document , as do my students (who compared it to songs by Taylor, the Kinks, Chappell Roan etc) and didn’t realize it came across as a fight. I genuinely wonder what was going on in the mayor’s court’s minds. It’s an amazing document and I’m glad you agree

But sodomy was not the purview of the Mayor’s Court—that would have been ecclesiastical. And why was Britby not there too? No, nothing about it is clear to you or to anyone, as the document is baffling all around and to repeat we have no idea what happened next

But again all I’m saying is that we don’t know. Imagination is all there is re what happened next

Well it’s not even clear what the prompt was. Cross-dressing alone? Prostitution? Neither seems sufficient—and why the City? It’s all very odd. I don’t see why they would keep her.

Probably. We just don’t know either way though as the document doesn’t say. ‘Arrest’ is not quite the right word either

Though could be the same . In any case no evidence that Eleanor was imprisoned in 1395 for this

Oh that essay. Thanks —Goldberg also thinks the whole thing might be fictional. He’s inventing this stuff …

Just think Eleanor is awesome enough to make sure we get her dates right 👍🏼

??

We all wonder and no there are no records

Not born 1395… the document refers to an event December 1394

The document wasn’t written under duress at all—it is an official account . Not Rykener’s direct testimony

And where does the ‘may have escaped’ the supposed imprisonment in 1399 thing come from?

(No record of imprisonment)

THANK YOU JEFFREY

Has it been determined whether the men’s fashion guy, dieworkwear, is on this platform?

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight! Just now lines 954-6