Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog
Subtitle: medieval studies and new media
By: Brantley L. Bryant [editor].
Contributors: Bryant, Brantley L., 1977-
Series: The new Middle Ages; New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780230105072; 9780230105065
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- d. 1400 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Blogs; Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog (Online); Civilization, Medieval -- Study and teaching -- Blogs
Other titles: Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog (Online)
Description: "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.
Notes: 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.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Playing Chaucer / by Brantley L. Bryant; title: Blogging the Middle Ages / by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen; title: Medieval Recreations. Chaucerians Do It With Pronounced E's and Other Risible Relics of a Career in the Medieval Trenches / by Robert W. Hanning; title: Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog, 2006-2009 / by Geoffrey "LeVostreGC" Chaucer et al.; title: A New Order; title: The Book of the Feere and Sentence of the Waye to Las Vegas in Amerique; title: The Return.