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And they say blogging is dead. A sampling of the medieval blogosphere's vitality, with an emphasis on new blogs:
- Randy Schiff has a new blog, Terri-stories, on land, law and literature. His post on Scotland and independence came just as I was revising an old blog post on lithic Scottish history for my book and is especially good.
- Angie Bennett Segler has an excellent blog called A Material Piers Living in a Digital World. Especially excellent are her posts on data versus publication and collectivity, collaboration and generosity (a response to her first troll).
- Medieval Ecocriticisms features Rob Bartlett's excellent Kzoo presentation on tangled banks and vegetal bodies.
- Maggie Williams rounds up Kalamazoo at our favorite collective's blog, The Material Collective.
- Anne Harris' Medieval Meets World is going strong, with an awesome series of posts on Gathering and Kinship.
- The Massachusetts State Medieval blog has much content, including a guest post by Jonathan Hsy.
- Anthony Bale's Remembered Places is a beautifully written blog about Holy Land sites and their simulacra.
- David Perry's How Did We Get Into This Mess? is a model of public intellectual outreach.
- A Clerk of Oxenford brings together English history and literature with some remarkable images and texts.
- Rick Godden's excellent new blog, ParaSynchronies.
What am I missing?
Thanks so much for the kind words, Jeffrey-- and for the plug for a very new (just days old!)adventure. I also want to let you, Karl, Mary Kate, Eileen, Jonathan, and all the many guest posters know that In the Middle has been my main inspiration in starting Terri-Stories. It is wonderful to temporarily escape the limitations of rarified, purely academic writing, and to imagine addressing myself to larger, more varied publics. I've been often inspired by In the Middle, and I hope I can contribute even a tiny fraction of such engagement with readers.
ReplyDeleteBale's blog is just outstanding. Thank you for including me on the list and, in general, for being a key node in the network of online medievalists.
ReplyDelete@Randy and @David: So happy that Jeffrey has written this post and is showcasing your work alongside that of the other bloggers listed above; I think it's great that ITM continues to address varied audiences and can also help point readers to other exciting blogs out there (including brand new ones!).
ReplyDeleteI just thought of another blog of note: Anna Smol's blog "A Single Leaf," which offers a very a useful grand collation of post-Kalamazoo write-ups (including many of the blogs noted in Jeffrey's post). I notice that she's been updating the list periodically as new things appear in the blogosphere:
http://annasmol.net/2014/05/21/kalamazoo-blogs-and-videos/
Thank you for this post and thanks to Jonathan for mentioning my collection of Kzoo write-ups. In compiling my list I discovered Yvonne Seale's blog, Furta Sacra, which I think is worth following: http://furtasacra.typepad.com/blog/
ReplyDelete@annasmol: Your collection of Kzoo write-ups is great, and thanks for noting Yvonne Seale's blog too!
ReplyDeleteFirst of all: Thanks for telling about those great blogs. We'll gladly add them to our blogroll.
ReplyDeleteSecondly: "What am I missing?" Maybe us, a medieval studies blog called "Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte". We publish for instance presentations of ongoing and finished research projects in our "1000 Words (of) Research / 1000 Worte Forschung", short or longer articles ("Opuscula"), translations of medieval latin texts, review digests etc., in English, German, French:
http//mittelalterblog.org @mittelalterblog