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Ethan Campbell<p>And last, by way of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Introduction</span></a> ... here’s a link to an article I wrote for a blog, which talks about one of the classes I like to teach: Tolkien’s Medieval English Sources. It’s about <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tolkien</span></a> , The <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LordOfTheRings" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LordOfTheRings</span></a>, the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GawainPoet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GawainPoet</span></a> , <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Shakespeare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Shakespeare</span></a> , <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AMidsummerNightsDream" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AMidsummerNightsDream</span></a> , these weird <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>medieval</span></a> creatures called <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/woodwoses" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>woodwoses</span></a> , and more:<br /><a href="https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2018/02/14/wood-woses-tolkiens-wild-men-and-the-green-knight-by-ethan-campbell/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apilgriminnarnia.com/2018/02/1</span><span class="invisible">4/wood-woses-tolkiens-wild-men-and-the-green-knight-by-ethan-campbell/</span></a></p>
Ethan Campbell<p>Here’s a link to my book, The <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GawainPoet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GawainPoet</span></a> and the 14th-Century English <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Anticlerical" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Anticlerical</span></a> Tradition, from Medieval Institute Publications. It’s about <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>medieval</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/priests" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>priests</span></a> behaving badly, and how lots of people, including the author of the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, criticized and made fun of them:<br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gawain-Poet-Fourteenth-Century-Anticlerical-Tradition-Research/dp/1580443079" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amazon.com/Gawain-Poet-Fourtee</span><span class="invisible">nth-Century-Anticlerical-Tradition-Research/dp/1580443079</span></a><br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Introduction</span></a> 2/4</p>
Ethan Campbell<p>Since I didn&#39;t include the hashtag the first time around, let me try doing this <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Introduction</span></a> thread again.</p><p>Hi! My name is Ethan. I live in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BrooklynNY" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BrooklynNY</span></a>. I’m an <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>English</span></a> professor at The King’s College, where I teach all kinds of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>writing</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>literature</span></a>, from <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Shakespeare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Shakespeare</span></a> to Russian novels to Southern lit. Most of my published writing is about <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>medieval</span></a> literature, namely from 14th-century England (<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Chaucer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Chaucer</span></a>, the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GawainPoet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GawainPoet</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Wyclif" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wyclif</span></a>, etc.). I also like to write <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fiction</span></a>. 1/4</p>
Ethan Campbell<p>My theory: the day was so holy and somber, the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GawainPoet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GawainPoet</span></a> took it for granted that no one would be feasting, hunting, or playing games then, so he simply left it out of the poem and fast-forwarded to the start of Gawain and Bertilak’s exchange game. But who knows [shrug emoji].</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Childermas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Childermas</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FeastOfTheHolyInnocents" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FeastOfTheHolyInnocents</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Gawain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gawain</span></a></p>
Ethan Campbell<p>It’s December 28th, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, or <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Childermas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Childermas</span></a> which commemorates King Herod’s murder of children in his attempt to find the Christ child.</p><p>For scholars of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GawainPoet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GawainPoet</span></a> this is the infamous “missing day” from the poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” … Lord Bertilak feasts for three days starting at Christmas, then hunts for three days, then suddenly it’s New Year’s Day. It’s not possible that the poet, who was obsessed with numerology, lost count. So what happened? 1/2</p>
Ethan Campbell<p>And last, by way of introduction ... here’s a link to an article I wrote a few years ago for a blog, which talks about one of the classes I like to teach: Tolkien’s Medieval English Sources. It’s about The Lord of the Rings, the Gawain-Poet, Shakespeare, these weird medieval creatures called “woodwoses,” and lots of other connections:<br /><a href="https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2018/02/14/wood-woses-tolkiens-wild-men-and-the-green-knight-by-ethan-campbell/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apilgriminnarnia.com/2018/02/1</span><span class="invisible">4/wood-woses-tolkiens-wild-men-and-the-green-knight-by-ethan-campbell/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tolkien</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LordoftheRings" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LordoftheRings</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>medieval</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Gawain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gawain</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GawainPoet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GawainPoet</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Shakespeare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Shakespeare</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/woodwoses" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>woodwoses</span></a></p>
Ethan Campbell<p>Here’s a picture and link to my most recent publication, a chapter in Becoming the Pearl-Poet, edited by Jane Beal. It’s about the question of who might have written the Pearl and Gawain poems, and what we might say about him even if we don’t know his name:<br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Pearl-Poet-Perceptions-Connections-Receptions/dp/1793646759/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amazon.com/Becoming-Pearl-Poet</span><span class="invisible">-Perceptions-Connections-Receptions/dp/1793646759/</span></a><br />(Yes, it’s an academic book and very expensive ... see if your library has a copy.)<br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>medieval</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PearlPoet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PearlPoet</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GawainPoet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GawainPoet</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Gawain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gawain</span></a></p>
Ethan Campbell<p>Here’s a link to my book, The Gawain-Poet and the 14th-Century English Anticlerical Tradition, from Medieval Institute Publications. It’s about how medieval priests behaved very badly, and how a lot of people, including the author of the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, criticized and made fun of them:<br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gawain-Poet-Fourteenth-Century-Anticlerical-Tradition-Research/dp/1580443079" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amazon.com/Gawain-Poet-Fourtee</span><span class="invisible">nth-Century-Anticlerical-Tradition-Research/dp/1580443079</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>medieval</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Gawain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gawain</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GawainPoet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GawainPoet</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/anticlericalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>anticlericalism</span></a></p>
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