@jamespaz.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval English Literature at the University of Manchester (https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/james.paz).
@oewordhord.bsky.socialReposted by @jamespaz.bsky.socialbrēost-gehygd, f/n.n: thought of the breast, innermost thought. (BRAY-ost-yeh-HUEGD / ˈbreːɔst-jɛ-ˌhygd)
#OldEnglish #WOTD
@jamespaz.bsky.socialBeautiful reading of maybe the earliest labouring class, or, more simply, worker's poem...
@kingsartshums.bsky.socialReposted by @jamespaz.bsky.social👂 What did medieval poetry sound like? Did it sound like the English we use today?
Dr @carlkears.bsky.social from @kingsenglish.bsky.social reads Caedmon's Hymn in Old English for the @poemsonthetube.bsky.social website 👇
@drlauravarnam.bsky.socialReposted by @jamespaz.bsky.socialSusie, Nik, & Esther will reflect on how their creative practice shapes their encounters with the Middle Ages. Next term’s event will feat @jamespaz.bsky.social & @daisyeblack.bsky.social on creativity in the classroom!
@mip-medpub.bsky.socialReposted by @jamespaz.bsky.socialFor our final September recommendation, we have to include "Teaching 'Beowulf': Practical Approaches," edited by Larry Swain and Ophelia Eryn Hostetter. Balancing both pedagogy and research, this is an invaluable volume for any instructor. Snag yours here --> wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
@exetercathedral.bsky.socialReposted by @jamespaz.bsky.socialAnnouncement: A selection of The Exeter Book’s famous riddles are now on display for the first time since the opening of the Treasures Exhibition in 2025. The Exeter Book is a treasured item listed on the UK UNESCO Memory of the World Register, preserving nearly all surviving Anglo-Saxon riddles.
@jamespaz.bsky.socialReposted by @jamespaz.bsky.socialI loved speaking at this seminar series last year! So well-organised by @jessdunmore.bsky.social
@jamespaz.bsky.socialI loved speaking at this seminar series last year! So well-organised by @jessdunmore.bsky.social
@levostregc.bsky.socialReposted by @jamespaz.bsky.socialThe pusillanimous knaves moost eager to calle academia a "sinkinge shippe" are usuallye those who have alreadye sailed arounde the worlde yn it. Those moost readye to calle the ivorye tower "broken" have growne jaded sittinge at its heighte. Meanwhile, everybodye else ys actuallye doinge the worke.
@jamespaz.bsky.socialReposted by @jamespaz.bsky.socialSlowly reworking and rewording my Order of the World translation (retitled as the Wonders of Recreation) for the coda to my book on Ecocreative Old English: www.academia.edu/40454449/Tra...
@jamespaz.bsky.socialReally pleased to have contributed a little chapter to this Palgrave Handbook of Medieval Literature and Science, and even more pleased that it exists, or will soon exist, and that it makes the case for scientific thinking in premodern literary periods: link.springer.com/book/9783032...
@carlkears.bsky.socialReposted by @jamespaz.bsky.socialRemember seeing this creative and generous critical translation of this poem at Leeds in 2014. It was already a sustained project rooted in creative translation practice and research back then, and it is a good time to be revisiting it now.
@jamespaz.bsky.socialYet another knock-back, this time for a co-organised creative, collaborative and generous workshop I was very much looking forward to.
@jamespaz.bsky.socialSlowly reworking and rewording my Order of the World translation (retitled as the Wonders of Recreation) for the coda to my book on Ecocreative Old English: www.academia.edu/40454449/Tra...
@jamespaz.bsky.socialI feel the same way.
@jamespaz.bsky.socialLooking forward to teaching Old English: Writing the Unreadable Past again, a module I've been teaching since arriving at UoM in 2014. After their first intro to Beowulf, it allows students to learn Old English but also encourages them to get creative with it:
@postmedieval.bsky.socialReposted by @jamespaz.bsky.socialstill thinking about proposing a special issue or essay cluster for /postmedieval/?
there's still time! we're accepting proposals for guest-edited collections until 15 september.
find the full #cfp on our website: sites.google.com/view/postmed...
