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 International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 8–10, 2025JEMNE: Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe has proposed two sessions for the next Congress:The Role(s) of Generati...

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Call for Papers: New Approaches to Post-Roman Europe The Heroic Age turns 20! In the age of the Internet, that is practically ancient! For our twentieth anniversary issue, HA is returning to its ...

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New Approaches to the Age of Arthur: Britain and Gaul in the Fifth Century Sponsor: The Heroic Age Contact: Dr. Larry Swain, larry.swain@bemidjistate.edu The "dark" fifth century has co...

http://theruminate.blogspot.com/2018/08/call-for-papers.html

What’s in a name? Everything in this case. The question I want to explore today a little bit is the use in Old English and in Old Saxon of the name “Heliand” for Jesus Christ and suggest th...

http://theruminate.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-congress-paper.html

On behalf of the Heroic Age board and my co-editor, I would like to announce the first parts of Issue 17!!  That will be further explained below. We are very happy to release these well-dese...

http://theruminate.blogspot.com/2017/04/heroic-age-issue-17.html

Merovingians and Their Neighbors Sponsor: The Heroic Age Session Organizer: Deanna Forsman Contact: Deanna Forsman North Hennepin Community College 7411 85th Ave. North Brooklyn Park, MN 554...

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A long, long overdue post in so many ways.  Three things: 1) I have an article that has now appeared in the summer issue of Anglia!  I'm rather pleased by this, though I still prefer my...

http://theruminate.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-small-bit-of-self-promotion.html

Hey, now you can guess why I chose the ol' ruminate as the title of my blog:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVjE_fS-plg

http://theruminate.blogspot.com/2016/05/wooty-woo.html

"Well, I'm back." Truly some of the saddest and most profound words to end a novel. For this post, "Well, it's over." will do just as well. And it is over. Kalamazoo 2016, the 51st International ...

http://theruminate.blogspot.com/2016/05/kzoo-2016.html

 Some time ago on Facebook, I promised or at least intimated that I want to do a quick little guide to how to be a good reader for a journal. This is in part based on my own experience on bo...

http://theruminate.blogspot.com/2016/05/time-ago-on-facebook-i-promised-or-at.html

An attempt at a Lorica prayer in honor of St. Paddy...and a nod to St Gerty. I bind to myself today the wholeness of being I bind to myself today the giggles of small children I bind to myself to...

http://theruminate.blogspot.com/2016/03/an-attempt-at-lorica-prayer-in-honor-of.html

If anyone is interested in my tenure narrative....a month in the making, 45 pages long and counting...it may be viewed here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1awA7oyPjQNU1pDTk1rZWNyZDA/view...

http://theruminate.blogspot.com/2016/02/tenure-tales.html

Dear Colleagues, Most of you need no introduction to the splendid work of the Dictionary of Old English and its importance to the work of Anglo-Saxonists worldwide. I am writing on behalf of the ...

http://theruminate.blogspot.com/2015/12/dear-colleaguesmost-of-you-need-no.html

So this is the summer class on Tolkien I'm teaching.  I hope.  Ulp.                                  ...

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ENGL 4183 Intensive Latin Online 2015 Dr. Larry Swain  Bemidji State University  http://www.bemidjistate.edu/academics/summer/  Course Description: This course is an intensive intr...

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The following is the paper I read at this year's International Congress on Medieval Studies.  It is in many ways, the confluence of several projects I have been working on over the last seve...

http://theruminate.blogspot.com/2014/06/bedes-multiple-textual-communities.html

The Renaissance Myth depends in its more modern incarnations upon one notion: The Roman Empire in the West fell.  And it fell hard.  But did it?  In most of these conversations and...

http://theruminate.blogspot.com/2014/05/did-rome-fall-dark-ages-redux.html

So, the official school year is done, and now I move into summer mode.  Summers for me are not "lazing about" but are very full: I expect a lot of academic service since I am chair and have ...

http://theruminate.blogspot.com/2014/05/what-summer-is-shaping-up-for.html

In another discussion about the "dark ages" and why the Renaissance is better and is in fact a "rebirth" of classical art and literature, one of the contributors compared the Germanic successor s...

http://theruminate.blogspot.com/2014/03/so-much-drama-dark-ages-again.html

A number of years ago on this blog, I promised a series of posts that would deal with the notion of the "dark ages."  That term is so wrong, so misused...and yet, I continue to encounter it ...

http://theruminate.blogspot.com/2014/02/there-were-no-european-dark-ages.html

The following is my paper from this past Congress, warts and all including the unifinished ending.  It is an exercise in data mining that is producing some interesting results and will resul...

http://theruminate.blogspot.com/2013/10/who-read-bede.html

So. I've thought for years I ought to do something about the History of English Language book choices out there, frustrating as they all are and far too expensive. But I haven't. Then after discu...

http://theruminate.blogspot.com/2013/10/something-helish.html

Well, tardy, overdue, and underdone, but the Carnivalesque is below.  More to come! Hello and welcome to the slightly tardy Carnivalesque, Pre-Modern Edition. Honestly, I miss the old days w...

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Carnivalesque will hopefully be up on the morrow (June 9).  Thanks for the nominations and the patience!

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Hey ho, The next Carnivalesque covering ancient, medieval, and early modern "history" (and I'm just sayin', I'll take anything in the periods) will be hosted by me right here on The Ruminate.&nbs...

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