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A metasite for the medieval metaverse.
Meanderings medieval and medievalist.
Musings on the Medievalism of Everyday Life.
For those ruminations that need room to roam; cogitations requiring comfort and calm; and for liberal indulgence in a love of lists. Featuring:
Dubious delights
• Extra-curricular para-research, from leisurely online potterings;• The categorising, arranging and re-arranging, and cross-referencing of relevant things: all things being of relevance, the interesting questions arise on degree and sort;
• The Joys of Tags: movement away from the aforementioned delights of classification and towards a non-merely-taxonomic ontology; based on conceptual clusters; resulting in a mish-mash of good old-fashioned Aristotelian Substance/Essence, Relation, and Affection;
• Parenthetical procrastination;
• Alliterative excesses;
• The odd bit of commentary;
• And the odd comment.
Topical commentary
• Medieval things;
• Medievalism(s), post-Medieval readings of the Medieval, and the Medieval's reception-history;
• The Metaverse, especially its Medieval and Medievalist areas;
• Readings of the current contemporary world in a Medievalist way/sense; as such, this is a different sort of "Medievalism and the Modernist Temper," being in the opposite direction to most sorts of Medievalism (e.g. current/21st-century-ist readings of The Medieval), and is often contrary to Neo-medievalism;
• Readings of everything and anything as though it were Medieval literature (and/or "fiction");
• Estier dichas: Comparative Medievalism and Applied Philology.
• Medievalism(s), post-Medieval readings of the Medieval, and the Medieval's reception-history;
• The Metaverse, especially its Medieval and Medievalist areas;
• Readings of the current contemporary world in a Medievalist way/sense; as such, this is a different sort of "Medievalism and the Modernist Temper," being in the opposite direction to most sorts of Medievalism (e.g. current/21st-century-ist readings of The Medieval), and is often contrary to Neo-medievalism;
• Readings of everything and anything as though it were Medieval literature (and/or "fiction");
• Estier dichas: Comparative Medievalism and Applied Philology.
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IMAGE CREDITS
• Image at the top of this page, also used and abused as my online avatar:c/o Wikipedia. Book of Hours, Master of Catherine of Cleves, Lieven van Lathem (illuminators); Utrecht, c. 1460. Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum (MMW), Den Haag: Ms. 10 F 50, fol. 6r.
• Site header & sidebar rose images:
original pre-doctored rose from photo-i; doctoring by the Obrienatrix for her very first (meta)site, The Rose of the Romance (Princeton U, 2003). Carefully hand-crafted using open source software (BBEdit and KompoZer) and Photoshop.
