Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Medieval Studies and New Media (The New Middle Ages)

There Is A Tendency To Assume That Anything That Happened In History Is Not Funny. Geoffrey Chaucer Hath A Blog Performs The Vital Service Of Showing That The Middle Ages Can Be Fun, And, As A Side Effect, Reminding Us That People Were As Capable Of Laughing In The Fourteenth Century As We Are Today...maybe More So.--terry Jones, Director Of Monty Python And The Holy Grail, And Author Of Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait Of A Medieval Mercenary Of A Medieval Mercenary. Bryant As 'le Vostre Gc' Makes The Best Case I Know For The Deep Pleasures Of Scholarship.this Is Some Serious Fun. Carolyn Dinshaw, Author Of Getting Medieval: Sexualities And Communities, Pre- And Postmodern. While Disappointed To Discover That I Am Not The Chaucer Blogger, I Nonetheless Commend This Edifying Tome.--david Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor, University Of Pennsylvania. This Must-have Volume Presents All Of The Most Memorable Posts Of The Medievalist Internet Phenomenon Geoffrey Chaucer Hath A Blog, Newly Revised And Updated, Along With Essays On The Genesis Of The Blog Itself, The Role Of Internet Blogs In Medieval Scholarship, And The Unique Pleasures Of Studying A Time Period Full Of Plagues, Schisms, And Assizes. Le Vostre Gc And Medievalists Bonnie Wheeler, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, And Robert W. Hanning Draw New Conclusions About The Ways Medieval Studies Are Perceived, The Connection Between The Past And The Present, And The Historical Roots Of Popular Culture. --book Jacket. Medievalism, Blogging, And Popular Culture : Why Ye Sholde Nat Rede This Book? / John Gower. Introduction : Go Litel Blog, Go Litel Thys Comedye! / Bonnie Wheeler -- Playing Chaucer / Brantley L. Bryant -- Blogging The Middle Ages / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Medieval Recreations. Chaucerians Do It With Pronounced E's And Other Risible Relics Of A Campaign In The Medieval Trenches / Robert W. Hanning -- Geoffrey Chaucer Hath A Blog, 2006-2009 / Geoffrey Levostregc Chaucer Et Al. -- A New Order : Geoffrey Chaucer Hath An Extreme Blog : Go England! Yt Is Rad! -- The Book Of The Feere And Sentence Of The Waye To Las Vegas In Amerique -- The Return. [edited By] Brantley L. Bryant ; With Contributions By Geoffrey Levostregc Chaucer ... [et Al.]. Includes The Key 2006-2009 Postings From Geoffrey Chaucer Hath A Blog, A Humor Blog Written In The Voice Of Chaucer In An Approximation Of Middle English. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Contents 10 Acknowledgments 11 Part I: Medievalism, Blogging, and Popular Culture 12 1 Why Ye Sholde Nat Rede This Booke 13 2 Introduction: Go Litel Blog, Go Litel Thys Comedye! 16 3 Playing Chaucer 23 4 Blogging the Middle Ages 37 Part II: Medieval Recreations 51 5 Chaucerians Do It with Pronounced E’s and Other Risible Relics of a Campaign in the Medieval Trenches 52 6 Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog 2006–2009 68 1 Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog 2006–2008 68 2 A New Order—Geoffrey Chaucer Hath an Extreme Blog: Go England! Yt Is Rad! 155 3 The Book of t he Feere and Sentence of t he Waye toward Las Vegas in Amerique 167 4 The Return 193 List of Contributors 199 Index of Blog Posts 201 Medievalism, blogging, and popular culture : why ye sholde nat rede this book? / by John Gower. Go litel blog, go litel thys comedye! / by Bonnie Wheeler Playing Chaucer / by Brantley L. Bryant Blogging the Middle Ages / by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Medieval Recreations. Chaucerians Do It With Pronounced E's and Other Risible Relics of a Career in the Medieval Trenches / by Robert W. Hanning Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog, 2006-2009 / by Geoffrey "LeVostreGC" Chaucer et al. A New Order The Book of the Feere and Sentence of the Waye to Las Vegas in Amerique The Return. "There is a tendency to assume that anything that happened in history is not funny. Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog performs the vital service of showing that the Middle Ages can be fun, and, as a side effect, reminding us that people were as capable of laughing in the fourteenth century as we are today ... maybe more so."--Terry Jones, Director of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and author of Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary of a Medieval Mercenary Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Why Ye Sholde Nat Rede this Booke....Pages 3-5 Introduction....Pages 7-13 Playing Chaucer....Pages 15-28 Blogging the Middle Ages....Pages 29-42 Front Matter....Pages 43-43 Chaucerians do it with Pronounced E’S and other Risible Relics of a Campaign in the Medieval Trenches....Pages 45-60 Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog 2006–2009....Pages 61-191 Back Matter....Pages 193-197