English 83

We discussed today in class how GM seems to keep slipping in little Christian moments way too early in Britain’s history. Well, the one we found turned out to be a translation inconsistency, but I think another one happened even earlier.
On page 61 while Brutus is fighting the Greeks and slaughtering them, this passage [...]

As class closed we discussed Monmouth’s Histories as a sort of unifying Anglo-Norman revenge fantasy. I think we can push that a little farther to include other Celtic peoples, namely the Scots and the Irish. Pulling a few of the threads we discussed in class a bit further would suggest a reading calling for unity [...]

I know this was probably supposed to be a heroic epic to make the British people proud of themselves, but it seems to me that once the Romans come, GM makes the British look progressively worse. When Julius Caesar first arrives, the British boot him off the island (twice) and leave him feeling humiliated. Even [...]

There are parts in The History of the Kings of Britain that are obviously made up. Geoffrey writes such detail about events immediately folowing the Trojan War (55), and about supersoldiers like Corineus (who dodges arrows and slices humans in half with one stroke; 67), and about man-eating monsters [...]

Notes on Arthurian history – Roman and sub-Roman Britain, and some on T.H. White and Sword in the Stone.
Notes week 1 (zip file)

So – this is Wordpress. It works just about like any blogging engine you’ve seen or used before. You will need to create a Wordpress account ASAP to start using this. As noted in class, I strongly recommend using a “screen name” rather than your full name
You can login, write a “post” (usually a [...]