Daily Archives: April 12, 2011

For photographic (rather than mimeographic–all right, joke!) images of some Ashmole 61 folios, head to the Bodleian Library site. Here, for instance, is the first page of King Orfeo; and here you can see how it currently looks with its … Continue reading →

In class today, Dr. Seaman remarked that had we read Chaucer’s “Second Nun’s Tale” outside of the context of our class, we most likely would have had a completely different understanding and appreciation of the text. So I considered what … Continue reading →